Either way, the metal lunch box was out.

不管怎样，金属午餐盒都过时了。

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The metal lunch box craze lasted until the mid-1980s,when plastic took over.

在20世纪80年代中期前，金属午餐盒可谓是大热，后来塑料午餐盒开始风靡。

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He put his wiper control in a red metal box that on the outside had the words "For Engineering Tests Only. Do Not Open.".

他将刮水控制器放置在一个红色的金属盒子里，上面写道 “工程测试专用，切勿打开。”。

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People use a metal call box with a push-to-talk button to connect to a live operator, as Rose Shuman explains: "You just push a button, a big green button, and that will connect you directly to our operators who are sitting in front of computers, and speak your language.

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He also makes heavy use of the cimbalom, a large box with metal strings that are struck with wooden hammers.

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She turned her back to me so I threw the little metal box across the room.

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He'd won the contracts for Metal Box (his big breakthrough), Mirror group, Britvic, Gerber and Coca-Cola-Schweppes.

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