The first transistor was about the size of the palm of a hand, with a depth of two matchbooks stacked on top of each other.
第一个晶体管的大小约为手掌大小，有两个叠起来的火柴盒那么高。
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The media used for advertising many range from matchbooks or ashtrays that the guests take home with them to display ads in magazines and newspapers and to radio campaigns.
用于做广告的媒体从客人带回家的纸板火柴盒和烟灰缸到杂志、报纸的醒目广告和广播宣传攻势。
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I come of good stock—real estate, mineral water, oxygen, matchbooks: earth, water, air and fire, the old elementals of the material universe, a bellybutton economics, a linchpin one.