We walked in silence up a flight of stairs and down a long corridor.

我们默默地走上一段楼梯，穿过一道长廊。

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They vanished down the stairs like two phantoms.

他们像两个幽灵似的下楼不见了。

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He shoved her down the stairs.

他把她推下楼梯。

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Squeezing past the stiff bulk of Eric, the stuffed bison, in the hall, she would creep down the bullet-pocked stairs and step out into Albert Street.

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Instead, Lehman (nyse: LEH - news - people ) shares got kicked down the stairs late Monday, dropping nearly 12% amid speculation that the U.K. banking group Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ) would make an offer to buy it--at a below-market price.

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In most airports, you are hustled off the plane and up stairs, down escalators, around corners, and along endless low-ceilinged, interior corridors before you have the privilege of standing in a line to show your passport.

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