When the old man learnt about his purpose, he handed the boy an empty bowl and said, "Go to the river miles away and fill it with water."

老人知道男孩的目的后，递给他一个空碗，然后说：“到几英里外的河边去，把碗装满水。”

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When the old man knew about this, he gave the boy an empty bowl and asked him to go to the river and fill the bowl with water.

老人知道这件事时，他给了男孩一个空碗，让他去河边把碗装满水。

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Heidi gazed at her in surprise, and was delighted when the old man opened the basket.

海蒂惊讶地看着她，当老人打开篮子的时候，她很高兴。

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When the old man arrived at the plant with the big purple flowers, he stopped.

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Milton had written in Areopagitica that he had actually met Galileo on his journey, when Milton was a young man and Galileo was a very old man, through the continent.

弥尔顿在中已经写到,他实际上在旅途中曾经遇到过伽利略，那还是当他是一个年轻人，而伽利略已然老去的，一次环陆旅行中。

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Rosalyn Schanzer shows readers the young man who was only twenty-two years old when he left Plymouth,England in eighteen thirty-one.

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When the old man (Nelson Mandela) lived in Soweto he would walk around, shake people's hands, greet and talk to them, he even invited us into his home.

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The old man is gradually giving the nephew reason to believe that he is senile or crazy by the things he says or does, so that the nephew will be alarmed but not surprised when the old man appears to be stealing a car.

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" When the helpless old man approached a railway official, he was told, "There is nothing we can do.

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