Then the following week I chewed gum and sucked on mints, candy, and pipe stems.

在接着的第三个星期里，我试着嚼口香糖和薄荷糖，当然还有烟斗杆。

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Would-be customers discovered it could be fashioned into molded insulation, valve parts, pipe stems, billiard balls, knobs, buttons, knife handles and all manners of items.

未来的客户发现它能够制造成铸模绝缘材料、阀门零件、细长的物品、台球、球形柄、纽扣、刀柄以及各种各样的物件。

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Cafe owners say they will lose money and that, since they give customers disposable pipe stems, their hookahs are quite sanitary.

咖啡馆老板们说他们会因此赔钱，还说既然咖啡馆已为客人提供一次性烟管，水烟袋应该是很卫生了。

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Hawkins paces out just one square foot of foreshore and picks up Victorian plate, modern glass, oyster shell, medieval roof tile, granite ballast from merchant ships and clay pipe stems.

BBC: London from the tide line