That afternoon, I had three FT maintenance men standing over the bike and trying in vain to smash the lock with wire cutters and a hacksaw.

那天下午，三名《金融时报》的维修工人在我的车前俯身撬锁，动用了剪钳和钢锯，但都不管用。

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One night, my father told me there is a small bird standing on the wire outside my window.

一天晚上，我爸爸告诉我，在我窗外的电线上站着一只小鸟。

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Standing there holding her wire basket, embarrassed by its very emptiness, was like something out of a soap opera.

她站在那里举着铁丝篮，因为它空空如也而尴尬，就像一出肥皂剧。

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Liam Neeson, his hair standing straight up like tensed wire, is the dauntless but neurotic sex researcher Alfred C.

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They were climbing lamp posts, sitting on barbed-wire fences, standing on the roofs of cars and buses and some not fussed about getting a baton around the kneecaps by the police.

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Then the finger joined the girl, the tray banged shut, I was standing by my shopping cart, studying the mesh pattern of the collapsible wire basket, trying to recall what was already slipping away.

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