To pass the time, I'd play a game by trying to cover the bottom of the barrel with corks I drilled before the foreman came along to empty it out.

为了打发时间，我自己发明了一个游戏，在领班过来取软木塞前将装木塞的桶底用木塞塞得满满当当的。

youdao

I wheeled myself for twelve years before you came along; I doubt that my arms have forgotten how.

在你出现之前，我已经推了自己十二年了。我怀疑我的胳膊已经忘记怎样转动车轮了吧。

youdao

On that first day, I ran down the hill and into the road (few cars ever came along it) and had the good sense to stop running before I reached the Store.

在我第一次去她家回来，我跑下山去冲到马路上(路上很少有车经过)，快到店铺时我还居然没忘了停下来。

youdao

Nature is a meaningless concept just like the lack of meaning within nature, where there's no culture until culture comes along and says, "Oh, not so much there is nature, but I'm terribly unhappy because before I came along, there was nature." Right?

自然是个没有意义的概念,正如自然之中意义的缺乏，自然中原本没有文明，直到文明走过来说，“哦，自然的存在并不算什么，我很不高兴的是因为,我来之前，这里就有自然了“，是吧？

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