Flies

(noun.) (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains).

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• In the periodical publications of June, 1914, may be read the eloquent announcement: Langley's Folly Flies. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You would be amazed to hear how my brother, Mr. Suckling, sometimes flies about. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• When he leaves go of his hat to use his telescope, his hat flies off, with immense applause. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Hunted, she flies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• At the opening of one of the bottles, at the house of a friend where I then was, three drowned flies fell into the first glass that was filled. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Time flies; it's getting on for one o'clock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The crow flies straight across Chancery Lane and Lincoln's Inn Garden into Lincoln's Inn Fields. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I have seen an instance of common flies preserved in a manner somewhat similar. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• With the flies a falling into the gallipots by fifties! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The buzz of the great flies was loud again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• She flies from him at last, returns to England, changes her name, and starts her life, as she thinks, afresh. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The flies were happy, the child was contented, and so the mother did not interfere. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Mind that dog, sir, said the groom; he flies at everybody! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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