It might be threefeet deep, it might be a hundred--there was no passing it at any rate.
它可能有三英尺深,也可能有一百英尺——无论如何,都没办法跨过去。
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Two months before he died, newspapers were reporting that he was working on a "death ray," and that he had "killed a rat with an intricate device at a distance of threefeet".