Although perhaps not as jolting as an alarm clock, a cat's "soliciting purr" can still pry its owner from sleep.

尽管可能没有没有闹钟那么叮玲玲玲，猫咪仍然可以用它那恳求的呜噜呜噜声，把主人从睡梦中磨醒。

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He would have had to be a bird of prey, a handsome hawk, to pry a bankbook from their fingers.

他得像猛禽，比如像鹰一般，才能从她们的手中抢到银行存折。

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Diners eat it with a plastic glove on the left hand, using the right hand to pry the snail from its shell with a long toothpick and then dipping the meat in a special sauce.

来此就餐的食客们左手戴上塑料手套，右手持一根长牙签将螺肉挑出来，蘸上特制的酱汁食用。

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However, Engadget maintains full editorial control, and Verizon will have to pry it from our cold, dead hands.

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That countermarket move was the same tactic his father employed years earlier, using Penthouse to pry readers from Playboy.

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Many Japanese managers look on cash the way that America's gun lovers view their firearms: you can have it only when you pry it from their cold, dead hands.

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