The word in Hebrew is something that's been beaten out, like a metal worker would hammer out a thin sheet of metal.

在希伯来语中，这个词就是被锤平的意思，就像金属工人用锤子把金属锤成一块薄片。

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Without local authority funding, he paid his own way during the two-year course, taking a job as a sheet metal worker for a time.

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