Standing there was the glowing figure of a man with a smile on his face and a large, solid, and definitely real axe in his hands.

眼前出现的是一个发光的人影，那是一个脸上带着微笑的男人，手里拿着一把巨大，坚固，货真价实的斧头。

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This was the place where a man had once taken an axe and hacked his wife to death in a jealous rage over an alleged affair.

这里曾发生一起命案：一件未确定的事情引起了丈夫嫉恨的怒火，于是他用斧头将妻子砍死了。

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Danish police shot and wounded a Somali man who broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard, a cartoonist, wielding an axe and Shouting "revenge".

丹麦警方开枪打伤了一个索马里籍男子，当时此人挥着斧头大喊“复仇”，闯入漫画家库尔·特韦·斯特高的家中。

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Perhaps Mr Purcell's legacy, though hardly stunning, is not quite as bad as it seemed when the Axe Man was axed.

ECONOMIST: Financial mergers

"We deployed two members of the team to help the man who was fully equipped with crampons and ice axe, " said Mr Benbow.

BBC: North West Wales

When the sound-effects man sank a knife into a cabbage the listener saw an axe crunching into the victim's head.

ECONOMIST: Lucille Fletcher