Steam the carrots until they are just beginning to be tender.

把胡萝卜蒸到刚好变软。

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CHILDREN can be tender souls.

孩子们个个都是充满慈爱的灵魂。

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It should be tender and moist but not gummy or doughy.

它应该很柔软潮湿，不黏也不软稠。

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But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.

然而突然，糟糕得很，我崇拜的那副美好的裸体,投入了台灯下一双男人赤膊的肩膀，他穿着内衣裤,读着报纸，靠在敞开的窗边，沉浸在,炎热，潮湿，绝望的夏夜里。

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