Plot is a far bigger tool, the writer's jackhammer.

情节构思作为一种工具实在是太大了，对作家来说犹如一把开山锤。

So foremen brought in high scalers who descended the cliffs on ropes, removing rubble with jackhammers and dynamite.

所以工头找来了攀登者，用绳索从悬崖垂降下去，用轻型凿岩机及炸药来清除碎石。

You can't jackhammer into the safe.

你们不可能钻开保险柜。

At 125 decibels, his short but startling songs are louder than a jackhammer.

125分贝，它那短促但惊人的歌声比手提钻的声音还大。

They began to jackhammer the floor and tear apart every inch of Headquarters.

他们开始用手提钻捣毁地板，将大脑总部拆得七零八落。

Oh, trust me, we will. The man is a jackhammer. Bye, Tom. See ya Sunday. - Bye.

相信我，我们会的。那个男人就是一个打钻机。拜，汤姆。星期天见。-拜。

100 decibels would be eight times louder than a vacuum cleaner and is roughly the noise produced by operating a jackhammer.

100分贝的声音相当于是真空吸尘器噪音的八倍，也差不多是一台手持式凿岩机工作时发出的噪音。

Like, if you go to a concert or need to operate a jackhammer, there are way better ways to protect your ears.

比如，如果你去音乐会或需要操作压路机，有更好的方法来保护你的耳朵。

Some people call it a jackhammer, but they both do the same job.

有些人称它为手提钻， 但它们都做同样的工作。

For a long while conversation was impossible, because I was bouncing up and down on the seat like a jackhammer.

有很长一段时间我们根本没办法谈话，因为我一直像只手提钻一样在座位上弹上弹下。

Look at what I've got. This is a pneumatic drill. Some people call it a jackhammer, but they both do the same job.

看看我准备了什么。这是一台风钻。有些人称它为手提钻，但它们的作用是一样的。

Over the next 14 years, 400 workers blasted more than 400, 000 tons of rock off the mountainside using dynamite, finishing the details with jackhammers and chisels.

其后十四年间，400位工人用炸药移除了山腰的四十多万吨石头，再用钻头和斧凿完成细节部位的操作。

My job isn't to help them work their way free, or manipulate them to safety—those are jobs which require the noisy jackhammer of plot—but to watch what happens and then write it down.

我的工作并非帮助他们脱身，或是操纵他们的命运，把他们从困境中弄出来——这些工作需要情节构思这柄大锤，这种力道大、动静响的工具才能完成——而是观看发生的事情，然后把它写下来。

Bank Street stories might depict a jackhammer or a train going by and then ask the child to imitate those sounds, but also any other sounds they might feel like imitating.

银行街的故事可能描绘一台压路机或一列经过的火车， 然后要求孩子模仿这些声音，同时也可以模仿他们想要模仿的任何其他声音。

You can liberate a fossil from hard ground with a jackhammer, no argument there, but you know as well as I do that the jackhammer is going to break almost as much stuff as it liberates.

你确实能用一柄开山大锤把化石从坚硬的地里弄出来，这点没什么好争论的，但你我都知道大锤掘出来多少东西，差不多也砸碎了多少。

He was a little jet-lagged and apparently hungry, doing his best between bites to answer my probing questions about his early trauma, although it was almost impossible to hear his replies over the clatter of jackhammers.

他有点时差，而且显然很饿，在吃东西的间隙尽力回答我关于他早期创伤的探究性问题，尽管几乎不可能听到他在手提钻咔哒声中的回答。