Collecting the 'Frolicsome Feline' ornamental plate range, adding flounces to fabric and frills to stationary objects, inventing instruments of torture.

收集“嬉戏猫咪”装饰盘，在衣服上镶褶边，给静止的物品装饰花边，发明创造折磨人的工具。

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Hobbies: Collecting the 'Frolicsome Feline' ornamental plate range, adding flounces to fabric and frills to stationary objects, inventing instruments of torture.

爱好：收集“嬉戏猫咪”装饰盘，在衣服上镶褶边，给静止的物品装饰花边，发明创造折磨人的工具。

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These standards may sound like instruments of accounting torture, but countries all over the world are embracing them.

这些标准乍看像是一种会计折磨，但全世界的国家都采纳它。

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He can point to the fact that the manufacture and export of instruments of torture, such as electric-shock batons and leg irons, has now been banned.

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New legislation to be introduced by the end of the month will make it impossible for British arms brokers to sell long-range missiles and instruments of torture to anyone.

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But even if it is, the whole idea raises that interesting question and suggests, to me at least, a better way to deal with the problem than weird-looking instruments of torture that enforce certain postures and hand gestures.

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