This was the culprit, a sharp tool called an awl which he was playing around with in his father's workshop.

这就是罪魁祸首，一种叫做锥的锋利工具，他在他父亲的作坊里摆弄锥。

We were using geological hammers, awls, and chisels.

我们使用地质锤、锥和凿。

Braille created his raised dots using an awl, the same sharp tool that had caused his blindness, and a flat grill to keep the lines straight and readable.

布莱叶用锥画出凸起的圆点，正是这种锋利的工具曾导致他失明，他还用扁平的格栅来保持线条的笔直和可读性。

Taking his brother's awl, he pierced it through Loki's lips and sewed his mouth shut, so the trickster god could no longer spread his malicious deceit.

他着他兄弟的锥刺穿了洛基的嘴唇，将他的嘴给缝起来了，这样这位欺骗之神就不再散播恶意的谎言了。

Tools were produced in diverse and distinctive shapes so modern that their functions as needles, awls, engraving tools, and so on are obvious to us.

工具的形状多种多样，形状各异，非常现代，以至于它们的功能如针、锥、工具等对我们来说都是显而易见的。

Then, with the assistance of an awl which he introduced alternately into each of the seven holes, he pressed upon seven of the little mosaic stones.

然后，在锥的帮助下，他交替地将锥插入七个孔中的每一个，他按下了七块小镶嵌石。

Varin closed the safe, took the seven of hearts and placed it again on the sword at the same spot. He thrust the awl into each of the seven holes.

瓦林关上保险箱，取出红心七，又把它放在剑上的原处。他将锥分别插入七个孔中。

Three fine needles of whalebone, an awl for making holes, a good stone knife for scraping hides, two cooking pots, and a small box made from a shell with many ear-rings in it.

三根细鲸骨针， 一个用来打孔的锥，一把用来刮皮的好石刀，两个烹饪锅， 以及一个用贝壳做成的小盒， 里面有很多耳环。

The average thickness of the trunk is, perhaps, about ten or twelve inches. The leaves are mostly undivided, like round awls, instead of being separated, like those of other pines, into twos and threes and fives.

树干的平均厚度可能约为十或十二英寸。叶多是不分开的，像圆锥一样，而不是像其他松树那样分开成三三两两。