We found puddles on the road here and there and it was troublesome for me to pick my way.

在路上到处可以发现泥坑，而我很难选择道路走。

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I have to stop by friends' home to pick up a book on my way here.

我来这儿的路上得顺便去朋友家取本书。

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Last year I started walking to work daily, about 4.5 miles each way. Sometimes I would take the bus home, or my wife would pick me up, but for the most part I walked.

去年我每天来回步行4.5英里上班，有时回家会做公交车，或者我妻子去接我，但大多数我都是步行。

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Once, on the way to pick up my younger daughter, Sarah, at the Oakland airport, I noticed that a wreck had blocked the traffic coming back toward San Francisco on 880, and I phoned Abigail for advice.

NEWYORKER: Land of the Seven Moles

Trying to puzzle out the best way to convey my sense that the Conservative opposition in Britain is preparing to pick the wrong battles with Europe, I decided to draft an imaginary email to the Conservative leader David Cameron, from an equally imaginary party policy group.

ECONOMIST: European politics