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When real life friends desert us, books are always ready to offer friendship, sympathy and motivation.
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A camel is, so to speak, a ship on the desert.
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I've lost 15 seconds of my life.
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You can see a lot of stars in the sky.
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Who's your favorite character in this book?
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And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.
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Tom looked at his reflection in the mirror.
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The girl in the picture has a flower wreath on her head, and not a golden crown.
The girl in the picture is wearing a crown not of gold but of flowers.
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I can't stop laughing at the jetpack-powered car in "WHAT THE CAR?"!
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A university thesis describes the "Orientalism" that imbues sci-fi in the West.
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Which one of the two brothers did you see?
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Russell was a brilliant philosopher, but even the simplest practical task was quite beyond him.
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He and a colleague who went to China later translated The New Testament into Chinese.
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The twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac come from eleven kinds of animals originating in nature, namely the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig, as well as the legendary form of the dragon, and are used as a calendar.
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In order to make life happy, you must love the everyday trifles.
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The mountain path was under a blanket of leaves, soft and easy to walk on.
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Don't wake up the sleeping child.
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I live in an apartment in the city.
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This kind of strange situation typifies my impressions of China.
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One of the dogs is alive.
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If you work hard, you'll pass your exam.
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In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.
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The earth is just a sphere suspended in space.
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I don't like any of these records.
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Have you tried flipping burgers as a car in "WHAT THE CAR?"? It's hilariously bizarre.
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A cloud is a mass of vapor in the sky.
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I could smell the alcohol on his breath.
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Everybody in the picture is smiling.
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