paperweight

俗語

A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away. / Any object used for this purpose. / (slang) A useless piece of equipment.

日本語の意味

書類が風などで飛ばないように置かれる、小さく装飾的でやや重い物体。 / 同じ目的で使用される任意の物体。 / (スラング) 役に立たない装置や機器

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She placed a glass paperweight on the stack of summer brochures to stop them from blowing off the table.

Google翻訳 / DeepL翻訳

彼女は、夏のパンフレットの山が風で飛ばされないように、ガラスの文鎮を置いた。

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意味（1）

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.

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