Rice is the staple grain and fish form an important part of the diet.

稻谷是主要的粮食，鱼也是饮食中常有的重要组成部分。

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Allow your disappointment to form a pearl just as an oyster does when an irritating grain of sand gets inside its shell, but grab the pearl before the sand gets in your eyes.

把你的失望孕育成一枚珍珠，就像牡蛎对待一颗落入壳中的沙砾一样，但要在沙砾进入你的眼睛前抓紧珍珠。

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"Yet the conventional form is revisited with a grain of salt," he said.

“然而，我们也通过一种有趣的纹理重新审视传统形式，”他说。

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Brown rice is the naturally occurring form of the grain.

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The abbey, listed as an ancient monument, includes the Spanish Barn, which was built to store taxes in the form of grain and hay, and also houses an art collection including pieces by William Blake.

BBC: Torre Abbey

As somebody who easily gets obsessed with measurements while cooking, filling the teaspoon of salt to the grain, recipes presented in this form feel closer to how I imagine anyone with actual cooking acumen approaches the metonymic kitchen.

FORBES: The Anatomy of A Recipe

And at a time when a weak UK housing market is contributing to our economic malaise, a further tightening of credit conditions would be regarded as highly unwelcome by the Treasury - and it would go against the grain of government and Bank-of-England policy, in the form of their Funding for Lending scheme to provide more and cheaper loans to households and businesses.

BBC: Are banks taking dangerous mortgage risks?