Borrowing an old navy custom, they bow in the direction of their hometowns.

借鉴海军一项古老的习惯，他们要向自己家乡的方向鞠躬。

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They bow to the sun!

向日葵向太阳鞠躬。

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It's a poem which begins, "I have heard that hysterical women say they are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, of poets that are always gay..."

诗的开头写道，我曾听见歇斯底里的女人们说,她们厌恶调色板和提琴弓，厌恶那些永远快乐的诗人们“

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So, they would have been more vulnerable and you wouldn't have to have such a powerful bow.

所以,既然普通弓箭容易造成受伤,你就不会需要用到那么强力的弓

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They didn't have the composite bow, didn't have power.

没有复合弓,力量也很小

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But it is only convention, not law, that they bow to the Commons in such circumstances, so there is at least a theoretical possibility that they might battle on.

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They bow and kiss the altar.

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Behind him, another from the US, all interested in what Rupert and James Murdoch, then Rebekah Brooks will - or will not - say and what the UK's top policemen until a few days and hours ago will want to spell out as they bow out.

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