At a party, he instructed a Royal Air Force pilot to remove the bulb from a light fitting and place it in a flowerpot, on hearing the word Germany.

在一次派对上，他让一名皇家空军(Royal Air Force)飞行员一听到“德国”这个词，就把灯具上的灯泡取下来，放到花盆里。

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Would that you could live on the fragerance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light.

我固然希望你们能靠大地的芬芳生存，如空气中的植物靠阳光延续生命。

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The focus of the light on the solar cell can also be fine-tuned by changing the air pressure within the balloon, and thus the curvature of the mirror.

借由改变气球内的气压，就可以调整气球反射给太阳能电池的光线焦距，还有气球内的凹面镜弧度。

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Indeed, being focused on odors -- which themselves require air to move, or a surface to light on -- means that for my dogs, the street outside our apartment building is different each time we step out the door.

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Parts of inexplicable circles, drawn or incised on the light-colored wall behind him, give an air of happenstance to his position.

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