Her father had ridden over to Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes plantation, that afternoon to offer to buy Dilcey, the broad wife of his valet, Pork.

原来那天下午她父亲骑马到威尔克斯家的农场“十二橡树”村去了，是为了商量购买他那位管家波克的迪尔茜。

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Reading about the Jeannette artifacts, Nansen wondered if the strong east-to-west current over the Arctic could be ridden to the North Pole—or at least close. And so an idea was hatched.

看过这些物件后，南森想知道，究竟他能不能乘着北冰洋里这股强大的东西方向洋流去到北极或者起码是接近北极的地方，于是一个想法诞生了。

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No one should underestimate the Iron Chancelleress, who has ridden roughshod over her opponents over the years.

任何人都不应低估这位“铁血女宰相”，多年以来她骑在对手头上作威作福。

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They had shaken hands and he had saluted and gone out to the staff car where the old man was waiting asleep and in that car they had ridden over the road past Guadarrama, the old man still asleep, and up the Navacerrada road to the Alpine Club hut where he, Robert Jordan, slept for three hours before they started.

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Meanwhile, London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics -- despite a rumbling row over costs that shows no sign of abating before the torch is lit and complaints that the project has ridden roughshod over the wishes of local residents and businesses -- will ultimately mean the creation of Europe's largest new urban park in 150 years.

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Paul Sagan has ridden hard over the wildest extremes of the Internet economy.

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