It made sense to show the statue looking ahead at what was happening in front of it, so that the living performer of the ritual could interact with the divine or deceased recipient.

让雕像朝前看、并能观看到前方发生的事情是有意义的，这样，现场的仪式表演者就可以与受膜拜的神灵或逝去的人们互动。

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Very often such statues were enclosed in rectangular shrines or wall niches whose only opening was at the front, making it natural for the statue to display frontality.

这些雕像通常被封闭在长方形的神龛或壁龛中，它们唯一的开口在前面，这使得雕像很自然地展现了正面。

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Whenever I go to the bank near my house, the cashiers are either fooling around or keeping whole queues of people waiting by chatting to the customer at the front about their holidays.

每当我去我家附近的银行时，收银员要么在闲逛，要么和前面的顾客聊他们的假期，让整条队伍的人等着。

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With gusto, he played his role in the shadowy spy world with an eternal itch to be at or near the front lines of action.

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That can hurt more than a rider's image because cyclists often need the help of their direct competitors for a water bottle, or to trade at the front of pack in a strong headwind.

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"We recognize the value to those who come to the United States to work, to study, to contribute, and we appreciate what this will do to the flow of visitors, now that they will not have to be photographed or fingerprinted at the front-end of short visits to the United States, " Fox said.

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