He gave it to me while he lay dying.

当他奄奄一息时，他将那给了我。

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But what's more remarkable (at least to me — a lay person and an accident waiting to happen) is the relative ease with which he works.

但更神奇的是(至少对于我这样一个肯定会出错的外行来说)，他可以相当轻松地完成工作。

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Meanwhile, “Lay off my wife,” he pleaded. “Target me.”

同时，他还恳求道：“别再攻击我夫人，向我开炮吧。”

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When I interviewed him earlier this season he told me he thought his own long injury lay-off had probably left him too far behind his rivals in the battle for forwards shirts.

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Upon arrival, the butler had asked me which night he wanted me to have him lay out an elaborate display of rose petals on our bed, fill the oversized tub, light candles and prepare the room for a romantic interlude, which I took to be a nice touch.

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Let's put this in context: just a few hours before, one of my Timorese colleagues was telling me how he wanted to lay flowers today for his nine family members who died during the struggle, but how they only knew where two of the bodies were.

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