Time and again, Mr. Heaney returns to the image of the pen. He began his long career writing of such a pen, nestling snug as a gun between finger and thumb.

希尼先生一次又一次回到了“笔”这个意象中。他开始了他漫长的写作生涯，这支笔就像一支枪，舒适地依偎在他的手指和拇指之间。

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He held it between his finger and thumb.

他用拇指和食指捏着它。

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Gesture: make a circle with your finger and thumb and fingers raised up.

手势：拇指和食指围成一个圈，其他手指朝上。

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Now take these two fingers-- the middle finger and the thumb-- and as much as possible, from that 90 degree angle, create a circle.

再让这两个手指-,中指和姆指-,尽可能保持直角时围成一个圆圈。

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Middle finger exactly and your thumb.

中指和姆指。

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So-- if you don't feel comfortable doing it, don't do it-- what I'd like to do now is as following: Take your thumb and your middle finger and create as much as possible a 90 degree angle.

感觉不舒服的，就不要做，希望按下面的指示做：,让你的姆指和中指,尽可能形成一个直角。

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Horsup works in northern hairy nosed wombat conservation, which at the time involved holding a piece of wombat excrement between his index finger and thumb.

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White liquid dripped down its chin, and the woman tickled its lips with her gland, holding the organ shamelessly between finger and lustful thumb.

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The newer, thinner Kindle seems more interested in wowing customers with its iPod-like exterior than in comfortably filling the space between an index finger and a thumb.

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