Witnesses spoke of a great ball of flame.

目击者都谈到有个大火球。

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Intense balls of flame rose up into the sky.

炙热的火球冲上天空。

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A coal slipped, the fire crackled and sent up a spurt of flame, and he woke with a start.

一块煤滑了下来，火噼啪作响，喷出一股火焰，把他吓醒了。

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The image in the flame is a hand and off of each fingertip are different natural healing techniques.

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II Only thin smoke without flame ; From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.

只有没有火焰的烟,从茅草堆中冒出;,然而这还是会照样向前,即使朝代更迭。

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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There are, bizarrely, no federal guidelines for routine safety testing of flame retardant chemicals.

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The blazing tommy guns emit little spearheads of flame, just as in a comic book.

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Social blunders, bitter disappointments, colossal errors in judgment all gone in a ball of flame.

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