in the corner on the gateleg table the glass paperweight which he had bought on his last visit gleamed softly out of the half-darkness.
角落里那张折叠桌上,他上次来时买的玻璃镇纸,在昏暗朦胧下闪着柔和的光彩。
actually the idea had first floated into his head in the form of a vision of the glass paperweight mirrored by the surface of the gateleg table.
其实,他第一次想到这念头,全由于折叠桌面映出的镇纸,给他留下极深的印象。
ms. huang, the paperweight maker, said that pay for skilled workers who can operate chrome-plating equipment had doubled just in the last year, to $630 a month.
生产压纸器的黄总说,能操控镀铬设备的技术工工资比去年涨了一倍,一个月630美元。
without the proper software, your computer is a heavy paperweight and computer software is very important.
没有适当的软件,你的计算机只不过是一个笨重的压纸器,所以计算机软件是很重要的。
the most advanced pocket computer you could imagine becomes nothing more than a paperweight once the battery runs out.
最先进的袖珍式计算机一旦电池电量耗尽,就会变得一文不值。
wait, have you every really looked at a paperweight before?
等一下,你以前有每次都看清楚书镇吗?。
she has a strong pictorial talent, and can make the reader see everything from the wings of a butterfly preserved in a glass paperweight to the giddy acrobatics of little boys jumping into a pool.
don't worry, there are a number of things you can try to get your router working again before giving up and living with the fact that your router is now a paperweight .
别担心,有几件事你可以尝试让你的路由器的工作再放弃和您的路由器。
the present invention relates to a paperweight board, belonging to the field of stationery technology, aimed at preventing exercise-book edge from curling when schoolchild writes on it.
本发明是压板,属于防止写字时本子卷边的文具技术领域,解决小学生写字时本子卷边的问题。
he had the feeling that he could get inside it and that in fact he was inside it along with the mahogany bed and the gateleg table and the clock and the steel engraving and the paperweight itself.