钉子

If I were you, I wouldn't run my head against a brick wall.

如果我是你，我就不去碰这个钉子。

He'd let me down more than once so the next time he asked me for a favour I gave him the brush-off.

他已不止一次难为我，因此下次他求我帮助时，我也让他碰碰钉子。

We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.

还有不少牛油蜡烛，一个白铁烛台，还有一把葫芦瓢，一只白铁杯子，一条破烂的旧被子丢在床边，一只手提包，里边装着针线、黄蜡、钮扣等等东西。还有一把斧头和一些钉子。还有一根钓鱼竿，跟我的个指头一般粗细，上面还系着几只特别大号的鱼钩。还有一卷鹿皮，一只牛皮做的狗项圈，一只马蹄铁。还有几只没有标签的药瓶。正要离开的时候，我找到了一只马梳子，东西还可以。杰姆找到了一把破旧的提琴弓，还有一只木制假腿。

I almost got cabob by one of Rousseau's spiky death-trap things.

几乎被 Rousseau 的钉子式的危险装置给变成肉串。

He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive nails into the chain link fence .

他发现，控制自己的脾气要比钉钉子容易得多。

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the chain link fence .

第一天，男孩钉了37个钉子在那个栅栏上。

For instance, suppose you want a chisel but you get a nail.

比如说，假定你想要一把凿子，却得到了一枚钉子。

The nail has been removed with a claw hammer .

钉子被用羊角锤拔掉了。

Look for excuse to look again the following day, foliaceous lamp within an inch of did not insult dizzy past, the dress is to hanged clothes tree to go up, but that nail also does not have at a loose end, hanged a vertical stroke draw!

第二天又找借口去看，叶灯差点没气晕过去，衣服是挂衣架上去了，可那枚钉子也没闲着，挂了一个竖幅的画作！

Every word of it in a nail in the coffin of his credibility.

他的每一个字都是一颗钉子，牢牢订在他信用的棺材上。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。