Mollie was not used to getting up early in the morning and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof.

莫丽不太习惯早起，而且总是借故蹄子里卡了个石子而早早离开地里的工作。

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It is not easy to hold your ground in front of someone with a gun.

面对持枪者而不退缩并不容易。

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These waters present a disposal problem if they are not returned to the ground from which they were removed.

这些水如果不回到它们所被移出的地面，就会造成处理问题。

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Everything else is across the ground. In basketball you go up a little bit, but not anywhere near as cool.

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But I am a novelist, not a critic, and I can excuse myself from explication de texte on that ground.

但我是个小说家，不是批评家，对于我以此为根据而说明,我可以为自己找借口。

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Maybe other principles of hermeneutics will place much more stress on innovation or novelty or difference, but you're not sure people can understand unless they share a great deal of common ground."

也许诠释学的其他原则更强调,创新，独树一帜，与众不同，但你不能保证人们都能理解,除非他们有很多相同之处“

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"I went up wanting a sacrifice fly and not to ground into a double play, " Davis said.

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Clearly the universities are not providing a breeding ground for bright foreign graduates who choose to stay.

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"There's not a lot of ground water here and we had no interest in dumping water on a giant lawn, " Mr. Holmes says.

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