He finds some shards of an old medicine bottle, the cap of a salt-shaker and a half-brick with markings that date it sometime between 1904 and 1936.

他找到了一些旧药瓶的碎片、盐瓶的瓶帽和半块标有记号的砖，这些记号是在1904到1936年之间的某一天标记上去的。

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THE most recent unemployment figures have hit Washington like a brick: the unemployment rate jumped to 5.5% in May, a hefty half-point hike from April.

最新的失业数据砸着了首府华盛顿，沉得像块砖。 五月份失业率跃至5.5%，比四月份狂升了0.5。

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An old, old ivy vine climbed half way up the brick wall.

一株很老很老的常春藤爬到空墙的半腰处。

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Mrs Malini will use her son's death benefits to put a headstone on his grave and complete their half-built brick house.

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Imagine that your high-school junior spends half of every day at the brick-and-mortar school up the street.

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Half his building (at 9006 Yellow Brick Road, in an industrial park 30 minutes outside of Baltimore) operates in bingo-card black-and-white.

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