When I am just ready to put my sharpened pencils into my pencil box, one of the sharpest ones poked my middle finger by accident, leaving a black print. It really hurts!

我刚要把铅笔收进铅笔盒时，最尖的那根铅笔扎进了我的中指头，留下了一个痕迹。

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When learning computer programming, I found it helpful to look at a function like a pencil sharpener. A parameter was a dull pencil, inside processes sharpened and returned a sharp pencil.

我在学编程时，常把程序比作卷笔刀，而把参数比作钝铅笔，经过处理我们就得到尖铅笔了。

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So the question is this: Can you balance a pencil sharpened to a perfect single atom wide tip on its tip, without active stabilization?

那么，问题在此，你能否将一只铅笔平衡在其原子大小的尖端，而不需要动态平衡吗？

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" His finance director, Takeshi Suzuki, who carries a freshly sharpened red pencil to meetings, says, "Toyota needs to be ready.

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