Sharpen your pencils before the test.

考试前把你的铅笔都削尖。

When you sharpen a pencil, you make chips.

当你削铅笔时，会有木屑。

And, having opened his big register, the geographer sharpened his pencil.

于是，打开了他的大记录，地理学家削起他的铅笔来。

Whatever you do, resist the urge of the overly concrete, like sharpening pencils.

无论你做什么，都要抵抗住想要做削铅笔这样过于具体的事情的冲动。

Oh, let's start by sharpening these pencils.

哦，让我们从削铅笔开始吧。

So take out your notebooks and sharpen your pencils, kids.

准备好笔和纸吧 孩子们。

I've got to sharpen my pencil.

我得削铅笔。

I didn't know that you couldn't sharpen it and you just did this so I tried sharpening this pencil.

我不知道你不能削它，而你只是这样做了，所以我试着削这支铅笔。

Upstairs a young lady, dressed in silk, could be espied sharpening a pencil, while two others, beside her, were unfolding some velvet mantles.

楼上一位穿着丝绸的年轻女士正在削铅笔，而在她旁边的另外两个人正在展开一些天鹅绒斗篷。