The blast propelled a tangerine-sized slug of copper down into the target, destroying it with the impact and the accompanying shrapnel.

爆炸将一枚橘子大小的铜弹射向目标，利用撞击力和弹片摧毁目标。

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At Tufts Medical Center, surgeons fixed the smaller of the two bones in her lower left leg that was apparently shattered by shrapnel from the blast.

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At a U.N. compound next door to the scene of the attack, anxious U.N. employees hunkered down indoors after shrapnel from the initial blast sprinkled the gardens.

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Feinberg's warning to lower expectations wasn't lost on Dan Loring, whose daughter, Brittany, was so badly hurt by shrapnel from the first blast that she was in the hospital for 11 days.

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