The star witness for the prosecution took the stand.

原告律师传讯的主要证人站到了证人席上。

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Every eye fastened itself with wondering interest upon Tom as he rose and took his place upon the stand.

当汤姆站起来，在证人席上就座时，大家都好奇地盯着他。

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He took the stand as the first witness.

他第一个出庭作证。

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He said that misconception had landed him in jail. The former Liberian president first took the stand in his defense on July 14.

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There's just a kind of a stand and you put the ball on the stand and then you just hit it.

只有一个台子，你只需把球放在台上，然后击打它。

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Hartman describes Milton's tendency in Paradise Lost, and he takes this term from Coleridge: the tendency to stand ab extra, to stand from outside.

哈特曼描述了弥尔顿在中的写作趋向，并且从柯勒律治那里借用了这个习语：,由外而内俯视自身的趋势。

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There are also a handful of small plates like the stand-out braised pork belly with cider.

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Another strategy Fazel will employ is to call Allen Stanford himself to the stand.

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But he expressed sympathy for her ability to endure her time on the stand.

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