No matter where you are in the world, if you hold your hand up and close one of your eyes, the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

无论你在世界的任何地方，如果你举起手，闭上一只眼睛，月亮永远大不过你的手指。

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Hitchhiking is generally illegal where I live in upstate New York, but it's not unusual to see someone along Route 20 with an outstretched thumb or a handmade sign saying "Boston."

但是很特别的是，在20号线路上，我看到一位老妇人伸出她的拇指或者用手势说“波士顿”。

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As things stand, it says, many gay clergy prefer to work as hospital chaplains, where their employer is the impeccably correct National Health Service, rather than in dioceses where they could be under the thumb of old-fashioned bishops.

ECONOMIST: A calling, but also an entitlement