The first half of the book almost has the sweep of a novel.

传记的前半部读起来几乎就是一部小说的翻版。

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The boss sacked half of his employee at one sweep.

老板一下子裁去了半数雇员。

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At last the cook came out of the shop, and taking hold of the sweep, declared that, as he had been feeding upon the smell of his food, he should not go away without paying half the price of a dinner.

最后，厨师从店堂内走了出来，一把抓住那个扫烟囱工人，说他闻饱了菜肴的香味，硬要他付一半饭钱，不然，就不放他走。

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The 83-year-old group can afford to let noisy secular rivals scrap with mulish ruling generals because its own front, the Freedom and Justice Party, along with some smaller partners, looks poised to sweep nearly half the seats in parliament's lower house.

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However, captain Victor Matfield spurned a glorious opportunity to put the tourists in front, ignoring an overlap in favour of glory as a fine challenge by Courtney Lawes, abetted by a last-ditch sweep from scrum-half Ben Youngs, pushed the ball from the second-row's grasp as he was about to apply downward pressure.

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But just as Strauss was set to reach his half century, he once again needlessly gifted his wicket away, top-edging an attempted reverse sweep off Hauritz to Johnson at short fine leg - the fifth time the off-spinner had claimed his wicket in the series.

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