A little fire is quickly trodden out, which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.

星星之火一旦燎原，则江河之水难扑灭。

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Six months later, he designed the connecting walkways in the theme park according to the paths that were trodden out on the grass by visitors.

半年后，他就让人按着草地上被踩出的痕迹铺设了人行道。

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Everyone got its legs kicked or its feet trodden on in the scramble to get out of the carriage that very minute, but no one seemed to mind.

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The grapes are trodden within it and the juice that flows out is channelled down wooden pipes into holes in the cellar floor.

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The book has flaws: there is too much on well-trodden events from the distant past, too little on the traumatic weeks after AIG's bail-out, when Goldman came close to death.

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