firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord
例句与用法
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The film soylent green , starring charlton heston , dramatized a future in which people would be stacked like cordwood and fed little squares that looked like tofu but weren ' t 由却尔登希斯顿主演的超世纪谍杀案,更将未来描绘成一个人类会被当木材堆放、并被喂以豆腐状饲料的世界。
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The june rise used to be always luck for me ; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down , and pieces of log rafts - sometimes a dozen logs together ; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood - yards and the sawmill 六月涨水,我往常总会交好运。因为一开始涨水,总有些大块木料漂下来,还有零散的木筏子有时候会有整打原木捆绑在一起的,你只要拦住,便可以卖给木材场或者锯木厂。
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The price of the paper was two dollars a year , but he took in three subscriptions for half a dollar apiece on condition of them paying him in advance ; they were going to pay in cordwood and onions as usual , but he said he had just bought the concern and knocked down the price as low as he could afford it , and was going to run it for cash 报费原是两块钱一年,他收了三个订户,按照他的规定,凡是预付,只收五角钱一年。订户原本想按老规矩,用木柴洋葱头折现付款。可是他说,他刚盘下这家店,把价钱定得低而又低,无法再低了,所以贷款一律付现。