Uncle Sebastian used to tease Mother and Daddy unmercifully that all they could produce was girls.
塞巴斯蒂安叔叔曾无情地取笑爸爸妈妈说他们只能生出女孩来。
Can you see why his name was changed into a verb meaning "to tease or torment by arousing desire”?
你知道为什么他的名字变成了一个动词，意思是“通过激起欲望来戏弄或折磨”吗？
It is really important to understand and try and tease out what is the human connection with fire today.
理解并尝试梳理出当今人类与火的关系是非常重要的。
The meaning of the verb tantalize is a very particular one, "to promise or show something desirable to a person and then take it away; to tease by arousing hope."
动词tantalize的意思非常特殊：“承诺或展示某人想要的东西，然后把它拿走；通过唤起希望来挑逗。”
I kept thinking of how Jerry would on occasion tease George by calling him "Biff," a reference to the son of the failed salesman Willy Loman.
我一直在思考为什么杰里有时取笑乔治，称呼他为“比夫”，这是那个失败的推销员威利·洛曼的儿子的名字。
It's impolite to tease others about their weight and appearance.
嘲笑别人的体重和长相是一件不礼貌的事情。
For a moment Basil looked angry, and then he began to tease her.
巴兹尔立马生气了，然后开始捉弄她。
Tease a skunk in Minnesota, and it can haul you off to jail.
在明尼苏达州戏弄一只臭鼬，这会把你送进监狱。
Osgood says the insurance question could also increase pressure on scientists and insurance companies to tease out the long-term impacts of global warming at very local scales.
奥斯古德说，保险问题可能也会增加科学家和保险公司的压力，因为他们要在非常狭小的范围内梳理出气候变暖造成的长期影响。
It is not nice or fair or kind to tease people about how they look or how their bodies work.
取笑一个人的外貌外形或者身体功能，不好，不公正，不善良。
To tease out that relationship, Crout says he will need to study patients over a long period of time, watching for both periodontal disease and memory loss.
为梳理这层关系，克劳特说他需要对病人进行长期的研究，观察牙周病及记忆力衰退。
我在学习梳理羊毛。
We all laughed, and we began to tease Jenny, mercilessly, but she was able to convince her Dad that she must have the $20, in order to get that irresistible book.
我们都笑了，开始奚落小珍妮。她很无助，就去向爸爸找安慰，她想爸爸应该还有20美元吧，这样就能买那本她心仪已久的故事集。
The Pew researchers speculate that this is because more women than men are unemployed by choice, although the study didn't attempt to tease apart that difference.
佩尤的研究人员推测，那是因为比起男性，更多的女性选择赋闲在家，尽管该研究并不想对这种差别进行嘲讽。
But they'll increasingly be used with other software to "tease out" relationships in data that can then be used to handle incoming stream data on the fly.
它们还将更多地用于其他软件中，以“梳理”数据中的关系，然后可将这些关系用于处理动态传入的流数据。
The Bank of England has started a survey to monitor credit conditions and is researching how to tease out. whether monetary expansion is stemming from changes in supply or demand.
英格兰银行已经开始了一项针对信用状况的调查并且正在研究如何分辨货币扩张的原因，即是由供给引起的还是由需求引起的。
But my father loves to tease, so he kept the ruse up for some time, and after that night I never played the game again.
父亲喜欢逗弄我，所以他会持续一段时间，所以在那晚之后我再也没有玩过这个游戏了。
To tease out the relationships between sleep, starvation and survival, the researchers deprived fruit flies of both food and sleep.
为了找到睡眠、饥饿和生存之间的关系，研究人员同时剥夺了果蝇的食物和睡眠。
The next day the stock market fell 115 points, prompting me to tease Bob Rubin again about how much Wall Street hated it when average Americans did well.
第二天，股市跌了115点，让我不得不再次奚落鲍勃·鲁宾，当普通美国人表现很不错的时候，华尔街却是如此憎恨。
We want to be part of the romantic, exciting adventure to tease apart its mysteries and understand the nature of physical reality.
我们都希望在人类浪漫、刺激的探索中占据一席之地，揭开表面的纱布，理解自然的物理本质。
The Oxford English Corpus would have let me look at numerous contexts of the word to tease out whether this was the case.
若有牛津英语语料库，我或许就能从大量的语境中分辨出事实是否如此。
Instead, he said, "it is a pattern, like a bar code with thousands of lines on it," that allows researchers to tease apart the fine points of relatedness among populations.
相反的，他说，“是一种模式，就像上千条线组成的条形码一样，”这使得研究人员能够分别群体中细微的相关之处。
The researchers speculate that HDL's anti-inflammatory properties may explain the finding, but say further research is needed to tease out the specific cause.
这些研究人员推测HDL的抗炎特性可能解释了这些发现，但表示进一步的研究需要整理出具体原因。
Workers are already sometimes hired on the basis of personality tests that try to tease out the very genetic predispositions that biologists are looking for.
雇主们已经时不时的以个性化测验为依据雇佣员工，以求筛选掉那些生物学家在寻找的从基因上看易患病的人。
There were a series of rules for the distribution of the money that were designed to tease out who the boys favoured: their own group or the other group.
为了弄清楚在自己这组和对方的那组之间这些孩子更偏向于哪一方，实验者设计了一系列的规则。
Whether it's the reproductive technology or some by-product of infertility causing the methylation defects is still unknown, but Sapienza plans to tease out the answer in future studies.
是生殖技术抑或不育的副作用造成甲基化缺陷仍是未知之数，但萨皮恩扎计划在未来的研究中整理出答案。
Then it applies some artificial-intelligence algorithms to tease out connections between the players.
然后用一些人工智能的算法分析出这些事件参与者之间的联系。
It's hard to tease apart end-to-end performance tests and attribute bottlenecks to a specific cause, the study says (PDF).
这份研究报告指出，用端到端性能测试结果来得出网速瓶颈由于某特定原因造成实际上不太合理。
Mr Mollick used a model originally developed by educational-policy researchers to tease out the effects of individual teachers on their students’ performance.
莫里克教授使用了一个最初由教育界的政策研究者开发的，用来分析出每位教师对学生的影响的模型。
Mr Mollick used a model originally developed by educational-policy researchers to tease out the effects of individual teachers on their students’ performance.
莫里克教授使用了一个最初由教育界的政策研究者开发的，用来分析出每位教师对学生的影响的模型。
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