She took a pinch of salt with her right hand, rubbed a trickle into the pan, and beat her hands clean like a pair of cymbals.

她用右手捏了一把盐，搓一撮盐放进锅内，然后把手拍干净，像敲钹一样。

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True bread is flour and water with a pinch of salt and yeast.

正宗的面包是面粉加水，和少量盐及发酵粉制成的。

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The widely reported number of 40% should be taken with a big pinch of salt, this being a country where no one knows the true number of eligible voters.

鉴于阿富汗到底有多少有资格的选民不得而知，（媒体）广泛报道有40%的选民参加选举，对此我们不得不表示很大怀疑。

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"Take the troika's forecasts of Greek GDP with a hefty pinch of salt, because the economy is in free fall, " said Simon Tilford, an economist at the Centre for European Reform in London.

WSJ: Greece Deserves Credit, but Debt's an Issue

Professor McKenna says evidence is emerging that speeders tend also to take many of society's other rules with a pinch of salt.

BBC: Traffic

Of course, take any of these patent applications with a generous pinch of salt -- we haven't seen an Apple stylus yet, for example -- but perhaps this is the reason Apple bought fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec back in July.

ENGADGET: Apple files patent application for fingerprint sensor that can be transparent or opaque