Rubbing his hands together happily, he mumbled half to himself, "This piece of wood has come in the nick of time."

他高兴地搓着双手，轻声地自言自语地说：“这块木头来得正是时候。”

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Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a crust of bread and plead, "Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat."'"

你家所剩下的人都必来叩拜他，求块银子，求个饼，说：求你赐我祭司的职分，好叫我得点饼吃。

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Before the ink could even dry on that study, astronomers have come in with another key piece of evidence to support the theory - and it comes from nearly 400 trillion miles away.

就当这一研究墨迹未干，天文学家又发现了支持上述理论的另一项重要证据——这一次证据来自接近400万亿英里之外。

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She would come happily but not in any hurry, with some piece of cloth or a scarf wrapped around her also a smell that I associated with candlelight and music.

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