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1 The Union Island gecko is the size of a paperclip, critically endangered and facing an insidious enemy - poachers.

2 He might be an Olympic champion but Cousins is no Simon Cowell; he sounded like a middle manager cutting back on paperclips.

3 Some mosquitoes are the size of paperclips and weigh only a couple milligrams.

4 The plug is in a long tradition of everyday, commonplace designs, from paperclips to Post-it notes, that are as useful as they are pleasurable to look at.

5 I fastened the pages together with a paperclip.

我用一个纸夹把那几页纸夹在一起。

6 "We would have invaded Iraq if Saddam Hussein had a rubber band and a paperclip," says Mr Rueda.

7 Pens and highlighters and colorful paper clips are arranged in desk drawers lined with tiny clear receptacles.

8 And onto the pointed end of a standard paperclip he managed to fit Shakespeare's "all the world's a stage: and all the men and women merely players," from As You Like it.

在一个标准曲别针的尖端，他成功地刻下了莎士比亚《皆大欢喜》中的名句“全世界是一个大舞台，所有的男男女女只不过是演员”。

9 Clippy, with its Groucho eyebrows, will now replace the flat and boring paperclip.

10 Another way to monitor the eclipse’s progression is through a pinhole camera, which can be made by poking a hole in a piece of aluminum foil or paper with a safety pin, paper clip or pencil, and projecting the image of the sun onto the ground.

11 Fill the jar with rice and a few secret objects like a coin, a paperclip, a button, a bead, a small toy, dice, etc and have kids see if they can find all the treasures.

把瓶子装满大米，在里面藏一些小东西，比如一枚硬币，一个纸夹，一枚纽扣，一枚珠子，一个小玩具，一颗骰子等等。让孩子找找，看他(她)们能不能找到宝物。

12 By conceptual expansion, one might think beyond this definition and imagine a paperclip as something else— such as a tool to pry open the battery compartment of a wristwatch.

13 The jury so far this week has not signaled how its deliberations are progressing, asking only for a definition of “weapon” and requesting trial transcripts, sticky notes and paperclips.

14 Dozens of paperclips and bookmarks peek out from its edges, a quick reference system for any question that might arise in the course of a day’s legislative session.

15 There’s a well-known thought experiment in the world of artificial intelligence that poses a simple, but potentially very scary, question: what if we asked a super-intelligent AI to make paperclips?

16 Unfold and glue the two end pieces together to form a bell (use a paper clip to hold the pieces together until the glue dries).

17 You deserve to be reminded of your right to know, and that every aspect of government - from paperclip to backhoe - is bought with your money.

18 This guy will show you how to repair a chipped tooth using a paperclip, LED light and hairdryer.

19 One well-known example, laid out by the Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom in his book Superintelligence, is a fictional agent directed to make as many paperclips as possible.

20 First, they asked the students to enlist multiple, innovative uses for common objects, such as paperclip, newspaper, shoe.

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