A large number of the telegraph lines were going in all directions, as crooked as the vines that grapes grow on.

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Well, the polis straightens out crooked judgments, "gentles the swollen ambitions and puts an end to acts of divisional strife.

城邦平反了,歪曲不公的裁决,驯服了膨胀贪婪的野心,终结了分裂和冲突

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So, Hesiod complains about them and calls them bribe swallowing basileis, crooked ones, plural; kings as in Homer.

因此,赫西奥德对他们进行控诉,称他们为"纳贿的巴赛勒斯们",复数形式的,就像荷马史诗中的"王者们"一样

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They think that a stick refracted in the water is therefore a crooked stick.

诗人甚至不能理解折射，还认为从水面上看,水中的木棍儿显得弯曲是因为它就是弯的呢。

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One stands straight. One's crooked.

一个站得挺直，一个驼背。

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