“People give me a lot of credit but I just listen to what others say, ” he says, tying a string of worry-beads around his thumb.

在其拇指上系着一串忘忧珠，他说到“人们给了我很多的赞扬但我只是听其他人说些什么罢了”。

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For cutting and slicing, hold the knife with your thumb and index finger gripping the top of the blade, and wrap your other fingers around the handle.

切割或切片时用拇指和食指捏住刀刃上方，其他手指顺势握住刀柄。

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I have organized this essay around six rules of thumb that I follow as I go about my working life.

以下文章主要围绕着6个方面展开，都是有关我工作生活中的经验和原则。

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The following morning I pulled a dusty copy of Elizabeth David's classic "English Bread and Yeast Cookery" from the shelf where it had languished for years, and began to thumb around.

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Her fingernails were bitten, the flesh raw, bleeding a little around her thumb.

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"Think of it like passing around a thumb drive, " he said.

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