If the tiniest piece of junk crashed into a spaceship, it could damage the vehicle.

即使是最微小的一块废品撞到宇宙飞船上，也会损坏飞船。

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Certainly, the fact that my original phone was a piece of junk was a lot of incentive.

当然，我原来的手机已经非常旧了，这也是买 iPhone 的原因之一。

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STEVE JOBS says Apple does not know how to make a $500 computer “that’s not a piece of junk”.

斯蒂文•杰布斯说苹果公司不知道如何用500美元做一台“不是垃圾的”电脑。

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"They are all hurtling around in space at 36,000 kilometers per hour and so even a 1mm piece of space junk can destroy or damage a satellite because it all comes from either dead satellites, satellites which have broken up, satellites which had fuel left in them and exploded."

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Normally, the station can use thrusters to move out of the way of a piece of junk, but this alert was raised too late for such a manoeuvre.

BBC: International Space Station in debris scare

Here's why: In the next few months, you may get a letter from your credit card company, insurance agent, or broker that looks like a piece of junk mail.

CNN: How to fight privacy looters

Senator TOM COBURN (Republican, Oklahoma): Well, an omnibus, number one, will include all the earmarks that are out there plus any other piece of junk that somebody might want to throw in to it and you'll never have a chance to look at it to see what's there.

NPR: Congress Unlikely to Complete Budget Duties