It contained an old piano, its keys frozen by time, and a lone desk in front of a chalkboard.

里面有一架旧钢琴，琴键都冻住了，黑板前面有一张桌子。

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Next to such patent nonsense, promises by the two front-running candidates, Martine Aubry and francois Hollande, seem merely frozen in time, circa 1981.

除了这样公开的荒谬言论，两位领先的社会党候选人玛蒂娜·奥布里和弗朗索瓦·奥朗德给出的承诺，似乎几乎冻结在了1981年前后。

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"It must have happened in a matter of weeks, " says Elrick. "What we see here is the death of a peat swamp, a moment in geologic time frozen by an accident of nature."

Elrick说：“当时的那场变故一定是在几周内发生的，我们现在所看到的这片泥炭沼泽遗迹，在地质学时间上只是大自然一次瞬间意外的快照。”

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At heart, however, the DMZ remains a place of limbo, frozen in time by the armistice of 1953.

WSJ: Michael Auslin: The Mirage of Peace in the DMZ

This is the story of human warmth across a political divide, frozen in time and made bitter by history.

CNN: Behind the Scenes: Amanpour's notes from North Korea

Who knows, maybe by the time you get to this point in my post, my own bank account will be frozen.

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