Primitive people, like children and animals, are simply civilized people with the lid off.

原始人，如儿童与野兽一般，只是文明人。

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I levered the lid off the pot with a knife.

我用刀撬掉了罐盖。

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They pried off the lid with their shovels, got out the body and dumped it rudely on the ground.

他们用铁锹撬开盖子，取出尸体，粗鲁地扔在地上。

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In eighteen sixty-eight, the American writer James Parton called it "hell with the lid off."

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And with Bush in retirement and Castro likely no longer around after 2008, the lid just might come off.

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