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 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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Blessed with elegant, long, straight fingers and deep nail-beds, Miss Howorth, who lives in Chelsea, has been a hand model since the age of 15.

得益于优雅、纤长、笔直的手指以及深色健康的甲床，居住在切尔西的豪沃斯小姐从15岁起就成了一名手模。

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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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"It's hand to mouth but we will fight tooth and nail to keep it going and to open on more evenings, " admits Jo Jones.

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