I heard the key turn in the front door and I was out of bed like a shot.

我听见钥匙开前门的声音，立刻从床上起来了。

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Pinocchio went through the water like a shot—swifter and swifter.

皮诺乔像子弹出膛似地游了过去——越游越快。

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Sitting down on his sled, the boy coasted down the mountain like a shot.

男孩坐在他的雪橇上，像子弹一样滑下了山。

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"It is like quite a monumental event, like Elvis dying or JFK being shot or something and yeah, just completely stunned really, so I cannot really imagine a bigger kind of thing happening in my lifetime,"

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And then, it's going to take off like a shot.

然后，它会像子弹一样离开。

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So, you take a sentence like -This is a classic line from Groucho Marx: "I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.

举例来说,这是《格劳乔·马克斯》的经典台词,"我曾在我的睡衣里射杀了一头大象

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It's not hard to choose those moments over a gimmick like a shot clock.

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It is something I would like a shot at again, but I have to work my way up.

BBC: Ashes: Ian Bell hopeful of England revival in Brisbane

Miss it, by gosh, since Sir Martin--he's also Britain's Astronomer Royal--figures our collective odds of survival are now dropping like a shot pheasant.

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