Someone had played a trick on her, stretched a piece of string at the top of those steps.

有人对她搞恶作剧，在那些台阶的顶部拉了一根绳子。

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From the answers and the laughter which followed them, Pinocchio understood that the boys had played a trick on him.

从他们的回答和笑声中，皮诺乔意识到，伙伴们是在捉弄他呢。

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They had played a similar trick with the instinct of parenthood.

他们会用为人父母的本能来玩一些相似的把戏。

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The Greeks did it by the playing of a flute like or oboe like instrument that played a military tune that had you marching forward at the right pace.

希腊人通过类似长笛,或双簧管的乐器发出指令,使之能以正确的步调前进

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我经常玩Photoshop（图像处理、平面设计），还上了些这方面的课，我就有……

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