Similarly, for the curtain call, when actors bow or curtsy, they place one foot behind the other and bend at the knee, thus 'breaking' the line of the leg.
He had fallen out of a tree-blind five years ago while bow hunting — stuck an arrow through his leg.
五年前，他在射猎时从藏身的树上掉下来了，被一支箭刺穿了腿。
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He works the lathe with a bow in his right hand and guides the chisel with his left foot, and thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape.