An NBA player once said to me, with a bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canada—get this—"We have to wait in the same customs line as everybody else."

在加拿大打球时，一位 NBA 球员曾经低声轻笑，带着难以置信的神情跟我说：“我们必须和其他人一样在海关排队等候。”

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I see the lines for phones and computers and marvel that my son would be so patient to wait in a line like that to connect with us when he was here in 2004.

我看到人们排着电话和电脑的长队，很惊讶我的儿子在2004年的时候能如此耐心地排队等着和我们联系。

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Before crossing the street, he would have likely had to wait for a long line of Japanese cars to pass.

在过马路之前，他很有可能要等着一长排日本汽车开过。

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After claiming our intended purchase, we waited in line. (Have you ever seen two boys, ages seven and nine, wait in a line?) Not without a penchant for distraction myself, I wandered momentarily out of the cue and asked the boys to stay in line.

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