I imagine there are different kinds of paper—or things like paper clips that need to be removed.

我想像有各种各样的纸——或者像回形针之类需要拿掉的东西。

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Put your pens, stapler, paper clips, digital camera, and any other assorted gear in a drawer, organized neatly. While you're at it, clear out your drawers and only put in the essential stuff.

你不必将所有的办公设备放在面前，你只需要在用它们的时候把他们找出来就行；将你的笔、订书机、纸夹、数码相机和其他的办公设备放入抽屉里码好。

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A mock-up, then, is something you pungle together out of duct tape, chewing gum, paper clips, cardboard, and paint just to test a concept that you don't necessarily want to implement.

模型是用管道粘胶、口香糖、纸夹和油漆等制成的试验品，用于测试那些目前还不想实现的概念。

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Instead, it's typically a more prosaic end: humanity wiped out because an AI tasked with a simple goal (say, creating paper clips, an example that is often used) requisitions all the energy and raw materials on Earth to relentlessly churn out paper clips, outsmarting and out-maneuvering all human attempts to stop it.

CNN: Is AI a threat to humanity?

One moment they are appointing paper-clip monitors to deal with the supply of paper clips.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

He'd provide an Internet marketplace where small and medium-size businesses could buy routine supplies, from paper clips to fluorescent lighting fixtures.

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