Reflections from Windows and eyeglasses produce superimposed views, and complex optical systems, such as camera lenses, can turn point sources of light into apparently saucer-shaped phenomena.

窗户和眼镜片的反光会造成重叠的影像，而例如相机镜头这样精密的光学系统会将点状光源扩散为看似碟形的现象。

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So too did the little star-shaped hole punches break and fall apart across the country-forcing election workers to turn to scissors instead.

星形的小型打洞器在全国也遭受相同的命运，碎成几块无法使用——无奈，选举工作人员只能用剪刀来代替。

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I turn on the overhead light in the kitchen, noting that its cake-shaped glass bowl is full of dead moths.

我打开厨房里的顶灯，发现那蛋糕形状的玻璃碗里装着满满的死飞蛾。

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And the generation that devised and presided over those tribunals had, in turn, been shaped by a much different experience in dealing with German war criminals after World War I.

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