Ben Weatherstaff took up his spade again and began to dig.

本·威瑟斯塔夫又拿起他的铲子开始挖了。

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He stood up and rested one hobnailed boot on the top of his spade while he looked her over.

他站起来，把一只穿着钉靴的脚放在铁锹上，打量着她。

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He flew right up to the handle of Ben Weatherstaff's spade and alighted on the top of it.

他径直飞向本·韦瑟斯塔夫那把铁锹的把手，落在了铁锹顶上。

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That is the sort of image that Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's prime minister for the past 22 years, has sought to cultivate as a man not afraid to speak his mind, to call a spade a spade, to stand up against foreign pomposity and bullying.

ECONOMIST: Mahathir Mohamad

S. honcho Michael McKean and his suck-up underling (the hilariously fey David Spade), the supercompetent Coneheads assume the coloration of the suburban American middle class and turn illegal-alien stereotypes on their pointy heads.

NEWYORKER: Coneheads

But did they come up with it before the Maltese Falcon of (Sam) Spade or (Han) Solo's time?

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