The novel's narrator Nick Carraway naturally comes to doubt Gatsby's account of a military commission that was supposed to have been issued out of a made-up upper-class background.

小说的叙述者尼克·卡拉韦很自然地对盖茨比的军事任命状产生了怀疑，觉得它可能是根据虚构的上层社会背景而颁发的。

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From the flooded depths of the ship, some did manage to claw their way up iron ladders to the safety of the upper deck.

从被洪水淹了的船的深处，一些人着实艰难地爬上铁梯来到上层甲板的安全处。

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The bill faces strong opposition in the Senate. The upper house of Congress is not expected to take up the issue until September.

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Now, to get to the number of neutrons, what we do is go up here to the upper left.

现在，看看中子数，我们要做的，是看到这左上方。

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because when I was growing up here, I lived down on the Upper West Side,

因为我在上西区以南长大，

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They make up the upper echelons of U.S. health care, and include Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Cedars-Sinai, and HMO giant Kaiser Permanente.

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Both grew up in upper-middle-class homes and attended college-prep Christian schools.

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It contained a dose of morphine for breakthrough pain or shortness of breath, Ativan for anxiety attacks, Compazine for nausea, Haldol for delirium, Tylenol for fever, and atropine for drying up the upper-airway rattle that people can get in their final hours.

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