But they sat there and did not stir, and the fire caught their clothes.

他们却坐在那里一动不动，连衣服也被火烧了。

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Thanks in part to lower unemployment rates than America, British homeowners are not being forced to offload their houses at fire-sale prices.

因为英国失业率低于美国，这产生部分影响，英国的房主不会勉强廉价出售他们的房子。

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They hold their fire when the enemy is not firing, so as not to give away their positions.

当敌人不开火的时候，他们也不开火，以免暴露自己的方位。

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They were not paid to do this. They earned their money at other jobs, but dropped what they were doing when the fire bell rang.

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Which seems to me to be a design flaw on par with Klingon and Romulan ships not being able to fire their weapons while cloaked.

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Whereas the ships apparently demonstrated their readiness to engage, in their decision not to open fire on the Iranian boats, they signaled clearly that the US is unwilling to actually fight Iran.

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