When Spot and Stripe were four months old, they were learning how to open doors and jump fences, and we knew it really was time for them to go.

当斑点和条纹四个月大的时候，他们正在学习如何开门和跳栅栏，我们知道是时候让他们离开了。

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The poor condition of the house and fences showed that it hadn't been used for some time.

房子和篱笆的破损状况表明很长时间没有人住了。

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I know I'll spend time in Tennessee and mend some fences, literally and figuratively.

我也会在家乡田纳西州修补一下篱笆——真实的和象征的篱笆。

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Mr. Witkovsky has tried with some success to contain within fences a time in art that wanted to ignore or jump them.

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The less than spectacular performance of many funds might encourage managers to take extra risks--assuming more leverage, for example--but "now is not the time to start swinging for the fences, " Gradante said.

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Laguna West, a development built south of Sacramento at the beginning of the 1990s by Phil Angelides, was designed as a throwback to a time when neighbours talked over back fences and took the bus to work.

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