Code reuse (the only type of reuse being attempted at the time) was seen as a way to buy hundreds of nails at the hardware store rather than making each nail by hand.

代码复用(当时唯一可尝试的复用方式)可以被看成是在五金商店购买成百上千钉子，而不是自己亲手打造每一个钉子。

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She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

雅亿左手拿着帐棚的橛子，右手拿着匠人的锤子，击打西西拉，打伤他的头，把他的鬓角打破穿通。

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She had split one of the fruits with her nail, so that red juice ran down her hand to her wrist.

她用指甲劈开，鲜红的果汁从她的手心流下来，流到她的手腕。

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The old saying goes that when you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail, and former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh worries that inaction on the fiscal policy side has led Bernanke to continue drawing on the financial crisis playbook.

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