said the doctor. "But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages at her funeral, I take away fifty percent from the curative power of medicines."

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He avoided carriages.

他撤消了车驾

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A fronde was a kind of a slingshot that Paris street urchins used to shoot fancy people with rocks as they rode their carriages through the muddy streets of Paris.

ronde类似于,某种弹弓,巴黎的顽童们用他们的弹弓"袭击",那些驾着马车穿过巴黎泥泞街道的人们

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