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.

NEWYORKER: Kinsey

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.

BBC: Cricket World Cup: Andrew White column

Snyder draws more people into the evil: where postwar mythology has enabled the view of an honorable German Army independent of the hideous S.S., he makes it plain that the Wehrmacht, not the S.S., created the first death camps, where Soviet soldiers were crammed together in the open, behind barbed wire, and were starved standing up.

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