So too did the little star-shaped hole punches break and fall apart across the country-forcing election workers to turn to scissors instead.

星形的小型打洞器在全国也遭受相同的命运，碎成几块无法使用——无奈，选举工作人员只能用剪刀来代替。

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Not the ones with hole-punches and their chads, hanging, swinging and dimpled.

不像那些打孔机和打出来的孔屑，垂悬，旋转和起波纹。

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Then he punches a hole in the paper.

然后他以拳重击一个洞的纸。

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Amtrak conductors have been getting schooled on how to use iPhones to scan passenger tickets on select routes since November -- forcing hole punches to collect dust on a lonely shelf at the station.

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For example, if your business involves putting together packets of information for clients, maybe you have one station specifically for printing, and another that has all the hole punches, staplers, folders, and other assembly materials, and still a third station for preparing outgoing mail.

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And in the process give the reviewer, who is probably ignored by his peers when he punches into work each morning, and by the general public who may not know his name from a hole in the wall, Brad Pitt or Beyonce-level recognition.

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