Woodenlegs are perhaps the most interesting of these prosthetics, for their origin in myth is more obscure than their true history.
木制腿在这些修复术中是最有趣的一种,因为它们神秘的起源要比它们的历史更加隐晦。
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The house was so old that the floors sank from the walls to the middle at an angle so pronounced I had to put little wooden blocks under the inside legs of our small dining table.
房子实在陈旧,地板从墙脚向房间中部往下倾斜,倾斜的角度很大,我只好用几块小木片垫在小餐桌的桌腿下。
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THE old man was sitting on his string bed. But it was upside down; its finely rounded legs were pointing to the sky, and the knotted ropes strung across its wooden frame were wet.