When you work in a particular language for a long time, it becomes the golden hammer: every problem looks like a nail that can be driven by the abstractions in your language.

当长时间使用一种特定的语言时，它就成了金锤：每个问题看上去就像一个钉子，可以用该语言的抽象来驱动。

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His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence.

一天，他的的父亲给了他一袋钉子，并且告诉他，每当他发一次脾气，就钉一根钉子在后院的围篱上。

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He drove in a nail with one stroke of the hammer.

他一锤子就把钉子敲进去了。

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The old saying goes that when you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail, and former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh worries that inaction on the fiscal policy side has led Bernanke to continue drawing on the financial crisis playbook.

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Well, if all you've got in your toolbox is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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