Being confused and uneasy to walk to the window, then, I see the answer over the west of horizon: clouds layer upon layer just like a line of high and steep white towers reaching to the top sky.

怀着茫然的不安，我信步走到窗前。原来，在西边的天际，可以找到答案：云层重重叠叠，就像一排嵯峨的白塔，高耸在蓝天之上。

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Like a line in the sand, an absolute poverty standard shows whether the economic tide is moving in or out. It does not matter too much where on the beach it is drawn.

就像在沙滩上划线，绝对贫困标准显示经济潮流是进是退，和这条线划在沙滩的哪里没有太大的关系。

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My great effort to teach a new way would disappear like a line drawn in water!

否则我教导新方法的巨大努力将像在水中划线一样消失得无影无踪！

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It is a line drawing made out of aluminum wire that looks like a wavy net floating in mid-air.

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Somewhere along the line in one damn incarnation or another, if you like, you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress, but to be a good one. You're stuck with it now.

在线路的某个地方，在化身或其他东西里，如果你想要，你不仅能渴望成为一个演员,也能成为一个出色的演员，你想现在是被困住了。

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So, you take a sentence like -This is a classic line from Groucho Marx: "I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.

举例来说,这是《格劳乔·马克斯》的经典台词,"我曾在我的睡衣里射杀了一头大象

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As we're chatting, penguins are filing past us like a line of wind-up dolls.

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The water reflected the gray-blue of the darkening sky, and the lights of the water-pumping stations had come on, making them look like a line of floating gazebos.

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From the outside they look like a line of gleaming Airstream trailers, especially the dome car at the rear, whose rounded windows afford passengers traveling first class a glorious 360-degree view.

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