I'm going to give your finger a little prick with this needle.

我将用这根针在你手指上轻轻扎一下。

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Anyone who has tried threading a needle with one eye shut will understand that this is not ideal.

任何睁一只眼闭一只眼去穿针线的人都知道效果不会理想。

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I need a needle and some thread to mend this shirt with.

我需要一根针和一些线缝补这件衬衫。

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"Our candid hope with this study is to move the needle a little bit, " says Adam Sacks, managing director of Oxford Economics.

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This carbon monoxide molecule effectively acts as a record needle, probing with unprecedented accuracy the very surfaces of atoms.

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