They were squashed into a small room as if in a tin.

他们就像被塞进罐头一样，挤在一间小房间内。

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Room was very small, with literally just a bed squashed in and considering this was all they had to make up - it was really messy and looked like someone had already slept in it.

可是房间很小，绝对不夸张地说，里面的床都嫌挤。这么点地方给他们打扫，可是居然还是乱的好像刚给别人睡过一样。

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During a rush hours of going off work on a rainy day, a girl student of high school squashed in a city bus, with a box of milk in her hand. Then packed into a crowd of people soon.

一个阴雨天的下班高峰期，一女中学生手拿一盒牛奶上了公共汽车，很快又上来许多人，车内骤然拥挤起来。

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We can see that an A is an A even when the letters are squashed or written in different fonts.

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