Nut-cracking, for example, is a complex skill that involves placing a nut between an anvil stone and a hammer stone and coordinating the movements to hit the nut just right.

例如，弄碎坚果是一项复杂的技能，需要将坚果放在石砧和石锤之间，然后调整动作以恰当的方式击打坚果。

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A hammer, pliers and an anvil - the main tools of a blacksmith.

铁匠使用的重要工具：一把大锤、一把铁钳和一个大铁墩。

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One must be either hammer or anvil in this world, and too great an excess of idealism only means that the unideal people shall rule the world.

人们必须在这个世界上敲出自己的重锤，太过多余的理想主义，只意味着不完美的人将统治世界。

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"For the first time ever we have the chance to put al-Qaida and related groups between a hammer and an anvil,".

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First, Mr. Cooper gave him a lesson in sharpening (it's done by peening with a hammer and anvil never by grinding).

WSJ: Who Needs a WeedWacker When You Can Use a Scythe?

Her speech, with training, gets heavier and slower, the emphasis landing on selected, morally instructive syllables like a hammer hitting an anvil.

NEWYORKER: Battle Stations

She allows her hair to be teased into a lofty blond arc, a sort of cotton-candy diadem, and her speech, with training, gets heavier and slower, the emphasis landing on selected, morally significant syllables like a hammer hitting an anvil.

NEWYORKER: The Iron Lady