But wisdom teeth weren't always a cash crop for oral surgeons. Long ago, they served as a useful third set of meat-mashing molars.

很久以前，智齿是作为把肉嚼碎的第三磨牙而派大用处的，不是像现在只是留给口腔医生去拔掉。

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I always think that a fine set of teeth are an adornment to a man.

我一直认为，一副好牙齿是男子美的一种表现。

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She resented it, and it always seemed to set her teeth on edge though if she'd heard it once, she'd heard it a hundred times, so often in fact that her daughter, just learning to talk, had eagerly enlisted in the interrogation.

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