They ate and drank and lounged in the shade.

他们在阴凉处懒洋洋地坐着，又吃又喝。

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They ate the packet of biscuits all in one go.

他们一下子把那包饼干全吃光了。

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They ate in an Italian restaurant in Forth Street.

他们在福斯大街的一家意大利餐馆吃了饭。

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And they slept there, they ate there, they had their lunch there.

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Even though God knew exactly what Adam and Eve would do -that they would eat the fruit -we still have to be able to say that they ate the fruit freely out of their own free will.

甚至可以说上帝完全了解亚当夏娃接下来要做的,-他们会去偷吃禁果,-我们还是可以这样说的,他们处于自由的想法之下，偷吃了禁果。

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They ate much better than poor people did almost anywhere else.

他们的吃得比别的地方的穷人好得多

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"Yesterday it seemed they ate more than enough, " Dagestan nature reserve spokesman Kurban Kuniev told AP.

BBC: Trapped Dalmatian pelicans hand-fed in frozen Caspian Sea

Then, on the last two days of the study, they could choose what they ate.

CNN: Sleep deprivation spurs hunger

Predictably, they ate rabbit stew, which their hostess had prepared with an expert hand.

NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho