| 21. | For five years the war raged without any signal success for either side. |
| 双方激战5年，没有一方取得任何重大胜利。
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| 22. | In answer to these questions I either nodded or made strange noises. |
| 作为对这些问题的回答，我不是点头，就是发出奇怪的声音。
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| 23. | You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes. |
| 要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
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| 24. | Finding that he could not remember a word of the letter either , the gaoler replied: 'The light is indeed dim, sire, I must get my glasses.' With this, he hurried off the stage. |
| 狱卒发现自己连一个字也记不住，于是便说：“陛下，这儿光线的确太暗了，我得去眼镜拿来。”
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| 25. | When my wife nagged me to do something about it, I told her that either I would have to buy a new mower or let the grass grow. |
| 妻子喋喋不休让我想点办法。我告诉她，要么买一台新割草机，要么让草长下去。
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| 26. | The place consisted of a straggling unmade road which was lined on either side by small houses. |
| 这儿有一条未经修筑的弯弯曲曲的道路，路两边排列着一些矮小的农舍。
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| 27. | An all-night party on New Year's Eve provided me with a good excuse for not carrying out either of these new resolutions on the first day of the year, but on the second, I applied myself assiduously to the task. |
| 新年除夕举办的一次通宵晚会，使我理直气壮地在新年头一天免去了这两项任务。不过，新年第二天，我全力以赴地照着去做了。
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| 28. | The inspector began to look for fingerprints, while the constable checked that the front door locks had not been forced, thereby proving that the burglars had either used skeleton keys or entered over the balcony. |
| 巡官开始搜寻指纹，警察经检查发现大门锁头并无撬过的迹象。由此可以证明，窍贼或者是用万能钥匙，或者是翻越阳台进来的。
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| 29. | When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favour of another person. |
| 任何人在银行开一个活期账户，就等于把钱借给了银行。
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| 30. | Once we get down to the oil, it usually flows to the surface because great pressure, either from or water, is pushing it. |
| 一旦到达油层，石油就会由于地下巨大的压力流到地面上来，这种巨大的压力来自地下天然气或水。
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