A device used on a sand line in the tubing of an oil well to scrape the wax off the tubing.

用捞砂绳下入油井的油管中以刮去油管壁上的结蜡所用的装置。

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She traced a line in the sand.

她在沙地上画了一条线。

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But the lodging industry must wake up, draw a line in the sand and figure out a way to put the beast back in the cage.

不过，酒店行业必须醒悟了，要明确表明自己的立场，而且想办法把在线旅行社这只野兽关回笼子里面去。

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They knew that the black line was formed by trees, and the white line was the sand.

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Prime Minister Brown was blunt. "Confronted with the serial deception of many years, the international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand,".

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"The buyers have drawn a line in the sand on commercial ratings and the networks have drawn a line on 'live plus three, ' " he told Daily Variety.

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The macro line in sand is the 50day moving average at 1205ish, so give it the zone 1190-1205.

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If thousands of people owned the team, any individual divorces would have been a mere grain of sand on the beach line of corporate operations.

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