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When the Pachyrhinosaurus bodies came to the bend in the river the momentum of the water push their carcasses to the outer edge of the bend. 当肿鼻角龙的尸体来到河流的转弯处，水流的动力将它们的尸体冲向河流转弯处外缘

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I'll make you sell yourself like any painted whore. Do you doubt it? He leaned back, smiling. I don't doubt you'll try. But I don't think you know me as well as you think you do. Do I not? Time will tell, Ralph, and only time. I'm old; I have nothing

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Well, I could drop these ice skates, said Stuart. 行，我可以把这些冰鞋扔掉，斯图亚特说。 Goodness me, the little bird cried, I didn't know you had skates hidden in your shirt.天哪，小鸟说，我不知道你的衬衫里还藏着冰

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As he took his place at the helm, he could hear people cheering for him and calling, Atta mouse, Stuart! Atta mouse! 当他坐回到舵轮旁，能听到人们在为他欢呼呐喊，好老鼠，斯图亚特，好老鼠！ He looked over and saw that

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Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, 无论是我自己的顾虑还是苍茫乾坤预知未来事物发展的先知之魂 Can yet the lease of my true love control, 都不能限制我的真爱的周期

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For an hour plains of sand unrolled before our steps. 在一小时内，一片细沙的平原在我们脚下摆开。 Often the seafloor rose to within two meters of the surface of the water. 平原时常升至距海面不及两米的深度。 I coul