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1 Every spare minute you could find them hunched over a chessboard, pondering their next moves.

每当空下来时你就会发现他们围着棋盘，思索着下一步该怎么走。

2 He had begun to like him on the September afternoon when he first appeared at his cell door carrying a folded chessboard beneath his arm and a Havana cigar box full of chess pieces.

3 I wheel him to his friends who are waiting, with chessboards spread, eager to see him.

4 Recently, I feel myself like a bewildered chessman lying on the life-chessboard and going on to live.

近段日子我觉得我就像一颗在“生活”这副棋盘里迷失了方向却继续走着的棋子。

5 As for the public, the sentiment among most people was: “What are they going to do, throw him in jail for ten years for moving wooden pieces across a chessboard?”

6 Recognizing Bobby’s greater need for money than the capture of a title, however prestigious, Bisguier noted: “Evidently, his mature judgment is not solely confined to the chessboard.”

7 After many days had gone by in silence, I sat in my room, staring at the sixty-four squares of my chessboard, trying to think of another way.

8 There was a chessboard on the table beside them, with the pieces set out, but no game started.

9 Imagine you are trying to cover a chessboard with pieces of domino each that covers exactly two squares.

假设你要用多米诺骨牌去盖一副国际象棋，每个多米诺骨牌刚好能盖2个方格。

10 Realizing that his next move might ruin his life, Bobby, whose life on the chessboard had always been about preparation and calculation, decided that people in desperate positions must take desperate chances.

11 A rueful smile, a shrug, and a nod as if to a skillful opponent who’d made a good move at the chessboard: that was what her body said.

12 I stare at the floor; it’s made up of foot-long tiles in red and white, like a chessboard, and I imagine how a knight would move across it.

13 On the flyover near Balintawak station, I peer down at a chessboard of tin roofs.

在巴林塔瓦克车站附近的立交桥上，我俯视着桥下如棋盘般的铁皮屋顶。

14 Alex pushed open the heavy swing door and went into a room with a tiled chessboard floor and about fifty shelves fanning out from a central reception area.

15 From the situation on the chessboard, both sides are indeed of equal skill.

从这个盘面来看, 双方真是棋逢对手啊.

16 "I played with Sam Westing—chess. Hour after hour I sat staring down at that chessboard. He lectured me, he insulted me, and he won every game."

17 I could see things on the chessboard that other people could not.

18 Passing the chessboard he saw that white had made a second move.

19 The hollow pieces were barely taller than an inch, and the set came with a folding cardboard chessboard that had red and black squares.

20 Oscar’s eyes widen but his attention’s back on the chessboard.

1 棋盘

board table chequerboard

2 西洋跳棋棋盘

checkerboard chequerboard