轻轻合上双手，手心朝下，置于腹部上。

Gently place your hands one over the other, palms down, on your abdomen.

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这个小孩合上双手祈祷。

The little child folded her hands in prayer.

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急难确实近了，而我并没有请求上天消灾灭祸——我既没有合上双手，没有屈膝，也没有张嘴——急难降临了，洪流滚滚而来把我吞没。

It was near: and as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it -- as I had neither joined my hands, nor bent my knees, nor moved my lips -- it came: in full heavy swing the torrent poured over me.

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