It was a long, hard night, but around 7 a.m., something happened: the wind chimes outside his mother's window started to chime.

这是一个漫长的夜晚。早上7时左右，发生了一件奇怪的事情：他母亲卧室窗外的风铃开始发出“叮叮当当”的声响。

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After a hard night of drinking Long Island Iced Tea at the University Motor Inn, I had struck one of these traffic cones while driving home.

在大学汽车旅馆喝了一晚上长岛冰茶(一种美国鸡尾酒——译注)后，我开车回家的路上撞上其中一个交通锥标。

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It had been raining hard all night.

大雨下了一整夜。

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She says being a mom is hard. "Because you have to get up every two hours in the middle of the night, and you can't go out and say 'I am going to buy this for myself.'

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You have to play hard every night.

WSJ: Isles send Habs to 1st regulation loss in month

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Frischling, founder of the Travel Strategist blog, said TSA agents came to his Connecticut home Tuesday evening to question him about his source, leaving for a brief time to go to Wal-Mart to buy a hard drive in a failed effort to copy his hard drive that night.

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