Worst of all, for a playwright specializing in characters who use the vernacular, he has a tin ear for dialogue.

最糟的是，作为一个专门刻画使用方言人物的剧作家，他在对话方面没有鉴赏力。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Unless the situation in the shops improves, in ten years' time we may all have to subject ourselves to a body-search every time we go into a store to buy a tin of beans!

除非商店里的情况有所改善，否则在十年的时间里，我们每次进商店买一罐豆子都可能不得不接受身体检查！

youdao

Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

他施人因你多有各类的财物，就作你的客商，拿银，铁，锡，铅兑换你的货物。

youdao

South Crofty mine originally closed in 1998 after the price of tin hit an all-time low.

BBC: Mining at South Coffee

Much of the violence has been financed with profits from the mining of metals such as tin, coltan, tantalum and gold - all used in electronic appliances.

BBC: DR Congo mining fights to revive reputation

Intel's goal is to demonstrate that its microprocessors are validated as conflict-free for tantalum by the end of 2012, and to manufacture the world's first microprocessor fully validated as conflict-free across all four minerals (gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten) by the end of 2013.

ENGADGET: Intel wants to have conflict-free processors by the end of 2013