Starting to pick up pieces of a purple shell.

捡拾起一枚枚紫色的贝壳。

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The pair of sticks is maneuvered in one hand, between the thumb and fingers, and used to pick up pieces of food.

一双筷子用一只手操作，置于拇指和手指之间，用以夹起块片食物。

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You cannot live your children's lives for them; you can only be there to pick up the pieces when things go wrong.

你不能替孩子过活，只能在出现问题时帮忙解决。

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You want to keep spinning your mandrel so that it doesn't melt off the rod and you're going to heat your bead so that it's tacky enough to roll onto the frit and pick up pieces of the glass."

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It's a huge warehouse full of amazing pieces which they pick up from all around the world.

它是个很大的仓库，装满了神奇的东西，它们是从世界各地收集而来的。

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Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

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In one building, just past a small statue of the beloved Hindu elephant god Ganesha, robots pick up pieces of sheet metal and feed them into a series of 30-foot-tall stamping presses every ten seconds until the left-side door of a Tata Safari SUV is formed.

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