I love bringing a big stack of magazines with me on vacation and getting to browse through them with my feet up on the couch.

我喜欢在假期中带一大堆杂志回来，躺在沙发上开始浏览。

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My schoolbooks were tied up with string and used as blocks so my feet could reach the pedals.

我的书本用细绳绑着来当垫子使用，这样我的脚可以踩到刹车的踏板上。

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Five extra minutes reading with my feet propped up.

我多了五分钟支着脚读小说的时间。

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"I could have taken that and been gone and be sitting with my feet up in Brighton and maybe this weekend fly off to Vegas to my brother-in-law's for a couple of weeks and wonder how Aberdeen were getting on back home, " he said.

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"Joe Pesci always said I'd end up with my feet in cement - I don't think this is what he had in mind, " the actor joked, referring to his co-star in the mob movie Goodfellas.

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And then one of them must have come back that night or another, because I woke up in the small hours with a hot-water bottle under my feet.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield