他把一个葫芦放在地上，在葫芦口上放了一枚铜钱，然后从大油壶里舀起一勺油，从高处往葫芦里倒。

He put a gourd bottle on the ground and covered its mouth with a copper coin. He then scooped out a ladle of oil from his big jar, held it high in the air and began to pour it into the gourd.

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浸礼会教堂、卫理公会教堂和长老会教堂，在第二大道和榆树大道的交叉口，它们像机警的哨兵一样面对面地矗立着，教堂的尖塔争相往高处伸。

There were the churches—Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian—facing each other at the intersection of Second and Elm like wary sentries, their steeples competing for height.

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One thinks, in a way, of Welles' line in The Third Man : when he looks down from above and says, "If I gave you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped moving, "? would you really tell me to keep my money?"

从某一层面看来，可以假想，Welles，在《黑狱亡魂》中的台词,当他从高处往下看并说，“如果你干掉一个在下面走动的人,我就给你，20，000，英镑，你拒绝得了吗“

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