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There's more than a grain of truth in that.

其中包含不少真理。

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And even in the conservative grain-farming states, two hundred thousand farmers joined a group that called for major economic changes.

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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Also, the list is in order -- the closer a whole-grain ingredient is to the top, the more of it the food contains.

CNN: Don't be afraid of the dark -- whole grains explained

"We're finding that when you rub a natural biological surface that has an orientation - that has a grain, if you will - and you run that grain perpendicularly to the long axis of the ridges, we find a dramatic increase in friction, " Dr Dominy told BBC News.

BBC: Artificial finger tests evolutionary origin of prints

The calories in a gooey cookie don't count if it's called a Nutri-Grain cereal bar.

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