To keep your house mouseproof , check all small openings with a ballpoint pen. If it fits the hole, it will let mice in.

要使你的房子里没有小老鼠，用圆珠笔来检查下所有的小洞。如果圆珠笔能放进去的话，那小老鼠就可能钻进去。

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A spider has hundreds of small openings in its body.

一只蜘蛛体内有数百个小开口。

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Such cells take food in and let waste out through very small openings in their walls.

它们通过细胞壁上非常细小的孔吸进食物和排出废料。

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The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.

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Left to their own devices, honeybees construct their hives in cavities, usually in trees and preferably with small openings that face south.

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