The hook in the ceiling had given way and the lamp had fallen blazing on to the table.

天花板上的钩子脱落，结果挂灯大亮着掉到了桌子上。

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The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.

他刚抹过灰泥的那块天花板脱落了，把他从梯子上砸了下来。

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There was a ruddy great hole in the ceiling.

天花板上有一个要命的大洞。

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The four levels of rooms center on a beautiful courtyard with a glass ceiling to let light shine in.

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Thanks to some friends there's a foosball table, there's a candy machine and there's also a cat in the ceiling.

感谢一些朋友的赞助，这儿有一个桌上足球，一个糖果机,在天花板上还有一只玩具猫。

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His work covers over three hundred fifty square meters of ceiling in a room that contains treasures from ancient Greece.

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Dykes told Creel that the built-in ceiling protected against the possibility of wet ground above, Creel said.

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The size of the raise in the debt ceiling in the near-term (a larger raise in the ceiling buys the politicians more time to create a longer-term deficit reduction plan).

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It is hand-painted in the ceiling, carved in wooden doors and fashioned in the cast-iron latticework of the window guards.

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