The three engineering students got the idea for the device while sitting in their school's courtyard.

这三个工程系的学生坐在学校的院子里时产生了这个想法。

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We were made to sit on our knees in the prison courtyard for an hour while they beat us continuously and kicked us all over our bodies.

我们在监狱的院子里跪了一个小时，期间他们不停的打我们，踢我们的身体。

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In the courtyard of a two-story building, the secretary asked us to wait downstairs while she went up to check with her boss.

最后我们来到院子里的一幢二层小楼，秘书让我们在下面等候，她上去请示她的老板。

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Our only complaint with Airport has been that, while the signal passed through plasterboard and brick--letting us stay online even while enjoying fresh air in a courtyard a floor below and 100 feet from the base station--we had an intermittent connection from the room opening out into that courtyard.

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