There have been genuine cases of gum gumming up intestines.

史上确实有口香糖粘住了肠子的病案。

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Dozens of antibiotics - including tetracycline and clindamycin - work by gumming up the ribosomes inside bacteria.

大量的抗生素，包括四环素和氯洁霉素，是通过进入细菌内部的核糖体而对细菌产生抑制作用。

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WITH 500 barrels of hard-set cement now gumming up the Macondo well, a number of inquiries are looking back at the loss of the Deepwater Horizon rig and the subsequent spilling of 5m barrels of oil.

因为现有500桶硬固的水泥堵住了马孔多油井，一些调查回顾了“深水地平线”钻井平台的损失以及随后500万桶原油泄露的损失。

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But these risk gumming up decision making, defeating the original object of the exercise.

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One senator gumming up the works for the whole country is certainly not what our founding fathers envisioned.

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Yet the dyes kept sticking to discs, gumming up the entire process.

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