He returned to work earlier this month after successful surgery to plug a pin-size hole in the bone covering the semicircular superior canal in one of his ears.
本月早前，在将覆盖着上半规管的引脚大小的骨头缺口填补的手术成功之后，他重新回到了工作岗位。
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Fortunately, he started running out of steam. He climbed into my lap and began rocking back and forth, back and forth, covering his ears, without saying a word.
幸运的是，他开始没气了，爬到我大腿上，滚来滚去、滚来滚去，捂着耳朵，不说一句话。
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Though our house was too small to have missed any of their arguments, he argued his case to us as if we knew nothing; like we should have been covering our ears for the last six months out of respect.