Up in the morning at seven to scrub the step and their own little section of pavement with scalding water, before she went to work.

每天早上七点起床，之后即用热水擦洗台阶及家里的一小段甬路，之后上班。

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They are fired up, but the exposed desert scrub of Somalia is not suited to a long guerrilla campaign.

他们情绪高昂，但索马里暴露在外的沙漠灌木丛并不适合长期的游击运动。

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By the time I got home they had frayed so much they resembled two small sheep, but I wore them faithfully for two months until I had to scrub up for a party in Venice.

等我回到家里的时候，线绳已经磨损得厉害，像两头小羊，但我还是很虔诚地把它戴在手上，直到两个月后在威尼斯，为去参加一个派对梳妆打扮的时侯才拿了下来。

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His Bigelow Aerospace owns 50 acres of dirt and scrub where he's put up a few sun-beaten buildings largely resembling those of the neighboring beer distributor and flooring contractor.

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For years, the Commission's reaction to made-up stories (eg, the EU is to scrub all mentions of the Queen from British passports) has been to write a polite letter of correction, and after a delay of some days, put a little item on its website.

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