As we were enjoying our first mouthful of thermos flask soup, a stout man, opened the gate and came towards us.

当我们享用热水瓶里的第一口汤时，一个胖男人打开大门朝我们走来。

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I still remember that when I went to kindergarten for the first time, all the teachers were standing at the school gate waving at me kindly.

我还记得当我第一次上幼儿园的时候，所有的老师都站在学校门口热情地向我挥手。

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When she and her mom arrived on her first day, she saw a crowd of angry people shouting very cruel things at the gate.

当她和妈妈第一天来的时候，她看到一群愤怒的人在门口喊着非常残忍的东西。

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"A Gate at the Stairs" is writer Lorrie Moore's first book in over ten years.

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Dick Brass, vice president of technology development at Microsoft, said the technologies will launch a lot of new areas such as eBooks, tablet PCs, ePads and ePaper, with eBooks to come out of the gate first with "major announcements" in about six months.

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"(Today) it is more of a gate, first of all for Romania connecting (the country) with the world, and in same time it is a gate for central and Eastern Europe, " he added.

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