The needle-eye is too small to hold the thread.

针眼太小线穿不进去。

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Hotpath - Being able to drill down fast in the calltree view to the major bottlenecks is something that needed almost as much hand-eye coordination as "Hunt the Thread" in previous versions.

Hotpath - 与上个版本中的“Hunt the Thread”问题一样，在CallTree视图中进行快速展开的主要瓶颈在于是否能做到足够的手眼协作。

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The sensors have a robust stainless steel body and push rod, body mounting options include M5 male thread, M5 rod eye or body clamps.

该传感器具有强大的不锈钢机身和推杆，车身安装选项包括M5的螺纹，M5的眼睛或身体棒夹具。

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From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing the eye of a needle.

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It works like this: thread by thread technicians apply the synthetic, polyester-based extensions to each tiny lash (up to 120 an eye) leaving clients the look of full eye-make up.

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