There tends to be a lot of obsidian flakes and chips in the hearth ashes, but not the chimney.

炉灰里往往有很多黑曜石的细屑碎片，但不是在烟囱里。

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I'm not sure what I'll do when the chips are down.

我拿不准到了关键时刻我会干出些什么事来。

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"The rubber chips are available. The biomass is here. The difficulty is the distribution is not there,"

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"When people stop going to a bodega to buy a soda, they're not going to buy the chips, they're not going to buy the beer, because they're not going to make two stops, " he said.

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Not that my chips preference is all that important.

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