There a crowd huddled around three musicians in front of a gaudy decorative altar-we had arrived at a wake.

一个花哨的装饰过的祭坛前有三个乐手，人群挤在他们周围—我们已经来到守灵地。

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I was one of them, standing in the crowd with my three-year-old son, full of hope that such a strong populist showing would bring about serious reform.

我是她们中的其中一员，带著我的三岁小男孩，站在人群当中，心里满怀著强力民粹表现会带来认真改个的这种希望。

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Emily is paid no wages and the telephone company reckons it saves three million dollars a year by employing her instead of a crowd of expensive, high-maintenance human-beings.

由于不用向艾米丽支付任何薪资，该家电话公司估计每年能省下三百万美元的费用，因为有了她就不用雇用一群昂贵的、高生活费的人类。

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In the course of one concert, we play for a larger live crowd than all but I think two or three orchestras in the entire country play for, over the entire year.

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To take one example, a kilometre from the Bagram airbase, and just off the main road, a crowd gathered recently as the bodies of three Afghan soldiers were carefully dragged clear.

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When England A played a three-day match in Chittagong, a crowd in excess of 32, 000 squeezed into a 25, 000-capacity stadium.

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The society that honours him is so fondly regarded that two nationally known bluesmen, Sam Myers and Anson Funderburgh, agreed to come to Helena recently to perform a Sunday night show featuring more than three hours of music before a far smaller crowd than they could draw in the big cities, and for a fraction of their standard fee.

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