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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He sharpened his pencil with a knife.

他用小刀削铅笔。

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

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Even before the members had sharpened a pencil or clicked a mouse, the committee was shunted into a legal siding where it has remained unused.

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