They saw a big flash and a huge ball of fire reaching hundreds of feet into the sky.

他们看到一道强光和一个巨大的火球直冲天空达几百英尺。

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Suddenly, the sun sprang out of the seawater, looking like a large elliptic ball, and the sky in the east became red.

一轮橘黄色的帽顶慢慢从海上升起，突然太阳喷薄而出，看上去像一个椭圆形大球；东方的天空布满朝霞。

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The sun is something we can not touch, we can not reach, the tiny orange ball in the sky, something extraordinarily beautiful.

太阳就是令我们摸不到、够不着，挂在天上的橘黄色圆球，它超乎寻常的美丽。

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The Reds, not looking their forceful best without Steven Gerrard, did create chances and Dirk Kuyt should have done better than sky the ball over the bar after a neat one-two with Crouch.

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But not for the first time Carlton and Granada have been wrong-footed by Sky, whose chief executive Tony Ball has persuaded Airey instead to accept a job as managing director of Sky Networks.

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That's pretty far away, but we could still see the glittering ball touching the sky.

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