A heavy machinegun without a tripod to put it on is functionally worthless.

一架没有三脚架的重机枪是毫无作用的。

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He ran off the poem like a machinegun, showing no understanding or sensitivity.

他像打机关枪似的地一口气背完了那首诗，既不理解又无感情。

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A Russian heavy machinegun 'Maxim' looks not that impressive but has a bigger range and rate of fire.

俄罗斯的重型机枪‘马克西姆’看起来不怎么样，但射程更大、火力更猛。

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Every one has 20-feet-high walls, built of sun-baked mud studded with pebbles to withstand machinegun bursts.

ECONOMIST: Waziristan

While the stand-off continued I watched a policeman standing in the shade of a date palm, fidgeting with his sub-machinegun.

BBC: Meeting the king of simmering Bahrain

Mr Brown visited Iraq on the same tour (and managed to get himself photographed in a pose that suggested he was manning a helicopter machinegun).

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