One woman pecked at an antiquated computer; the rest read old newspapers or dozed.

一名妇女正在操作着一台旧式电脑，其他人在看旧报纸，有的在瞌睡。

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To cut to the chase, if you read old books you get a sense for how thin the searchable veneer of the web is on our world.

言归正传，如果你读过一些古书，就会发现web上可供搜索的内容是多么地少。

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Twenty-five years ago a group of folklorists gathered in Elko, a remote Nevada town, to read old cowboy poems and songs.

25年前，一些民俗学家在偏僻的内华达小镇埃尔科齐聚一堂，共诵牛仔诗歌。

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Sixteen-year-old violinist Nicholas Black joined after he read a story about the group in a local newspaper.

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You can read Jeremiah and Isaiah and some of the great Old Testament prophets in some ways as defenders of slavery.

你可以读一读耶利米书和以赛亚书,在《旧约》中,还有些在某些方面,作为奴隶制拥护者的的伟大先知们的著作

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Well enough, I guess, of that; although if you want to understand the optimism of that time just dip into Leaves of Grass, read Whitman's Old Pioneers.

我猜这足以驱使他写出这样的作品,但如果你想了解那个时代的乐观主义,只需去翻阅《草叶集》,读读惠特曼的《啊,拓荒者》吧

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To appreciate just how much so, one only has to read old hard-boiled detective novels and English manor-house mysteries.

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Her brother, my great-uncle, is one of Pakistan's last remaining orators -- professional storytellers who read old stories written by famous writers of the Subcontinent.

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Most of the day, the mother sat in her room and read old books, while Aryeh Zelnik listened to the radio in his room and built airplanes out of light wood.

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