As she got closer, we saw the spear in her hand was just a wooden pole.

当她走近时，我们看到她手里的矛只是一根木杆。

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The point used by Clovis people differs slightly from later points, in the way that the base of the stone is thinned—it's thinner toward the base, the part that's attached to the spear.

克洛维斯人使用的矛头和后期的矛头有些不同，克洛维斯矛头的石基座是薄的，即越接近基座（接在矛上的一端）越薄。

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The spear is presumably the murder weapon.

这矛很可能就是凶器。

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He began moving quickly toward me with the spear.

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Just as soon as we crowded our imagination already with the image of the spear the size of a Norwegian pine, which took a certain imaginative leap on our parts, we realize that Satan and his spear are immeasurably larger even than that.

我们已经对于,那棵已然吸引了我们大量注意力的挪威松木，及和之相比的长矛的大小浮想联翩了，我们意识到撒旦和他的长矛甚至比松木还要广大无边。

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The simile pushes the size of the spear clean out of our rational comprehension, and it's this process that is, according to Stanley Fish, the point of the simile.

这个比喻对长矛的形容,大大超出了正常的理解范围，对斯坦利费什来说，这恰恰是表达这个比喻的目的的一个过程。

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We like to be at the pointy edge of the spear when we can be.

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Other important hand to hand weapons tools include the spear, the battleaxe, the pike and the polearm.

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After another breath and dive I made one thrust with the spear and surfaced with a wriggling bug.

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