几根原木捆扎在一起做成了木筏。

Several logs had been lashed together to make a raft.

《牛津词典》

屋顶用几根木头支撑固定住了。

The roof was braced by lengths of timber.

《牛津词典》

我长了几根白头发，但我把它们拔掉了。

I get some grey hairs but I pull them out.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

They might be a couple of inches, or most footers so-- and so no single fiber stretches all the way across the room.

它们可能就几英寸,或者最多几英尺-,所以没有一根纤维可以单独,横跨整间屋子。

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Would she have imagined that the world famous whatever remembered how many strings were on the lyre on the bench beside the girl on the label of the cigar box he'd stated at in the tool shed at age ten while she, age eleven.

她能想象到这个世界闻名的诸如此类的人,竟然记得当她11岁，他10岁时在工具间里盯着看的,那雪茄盒上的标签上的姑娘身边,长椅上的竖琴有几根弦吗。

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