I am simply making a case for the cheaper, not-so-nifty, yet always reliable syringe which is so often made to look as the inferior alternative left for poor or unfortunate diabetics.

我只是想证明既便宜又可靠的注射器并不像大家认为的那样只是留给贫穷的糖尿病人用的次等品。

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Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat Morocco case.

歇洛克·福尔摩斯从壁炉台的角落拿起一只药瓶，又把一支皮下注射器从整洁的山羊皮匣子里拿了出来。

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He was cured with surgery, and there was another case where a medical technician stuck herself with a syringe, got a tumor in her hand, and then there was also a case back in the 1920s of a medical student named Henry Vadaneaux (ph) who stuck himself with a syringe.

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