But before I introduce them into my game, my body needs to be sharpened to perfect them.

但是在我将它们引入自己的比赛前，我必须先磨练自己的身体以完美的展现它们。

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James and I watched the girl whenever I looked up, or when I sharpened the pencil with a pencil sharpener with the shavings curling into the saucer under my drink.

每每抬头，或者用转笔刀削铅笔，我都注视那个女孩，卷曲的铅笔花掉在朗姆酒杯下垫着的杯托上。

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When I am just ready to put my sharpened pencils into my pencil box, one of the sharpest ones poked my middle finger by accident, leaving a black print. It really hurts!

我刚要把铅笔收进铅笔盒时，最尖的那根铅笔扎进了我的中指头，留下了一个痕迹。

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Even before the members had sharpened a pencil or clicked a mouse, the committee was shunted into a legal siding where it has remained unused.

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Just as Ernest Hemingway in the 1930s sharpened up language with short sentences, so Beckett and Co introduced ambiguity into novels, even traditional ones, and especially into films, television, pop music and advertising.

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The struggle is sharpened, though, because the advent of the euro has propelled European companies into a frenzy of mergers and takeovers, intensifying competition.

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