I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear because a bullet had been fired through a window.
我坐在地板上吓得浑身发抖,因为有一颗子弹射穿窗户打了进来。
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A shudder passed through Peter, and he sat on the floor and cried.
彼得打了个寒颤,坐在地板上哭了起来。
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Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor.