After the operation you may find it difficult to chew and swallow.

手术后你咀嚼和吞咽都会感到困难。

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Old men have to chew thoroughly before swallowing.

老人在吞咽食物前必须细细咀嚼。

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It would be better for you to chew a few cough drops to get rid of that cold you have.

你最好嚼几颗咳嗽糖，来治治你的感冒。

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Two thousand years ago, the Greek doctor Hippocrates advised his patients to chew on the bark and leaves of the willow.

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However, if you do happen to be an English or a literature major or someone who's just very serious about reading at that level, you will find plenty to chew on here.

然而，如果你刚好主修英语或是文学,或是任何以主修的水平很认真阅读的人，你将会在这里发现很多值得咀嚼的东西。

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And you could interfere with a translation by degrading messenger RNA, for example. If you had a way to specifically chew up all the RNA molecules that are responsible for making a particular protein, you could stop it from being expressed even though your cell is trying to make it.

而你就可以通过,降解其mRNA来进行干扰,再举个例子,如果你能把表达特定蛋白的RNA,统统揪出来捣毁的话,你也能阻止这段基因表达,哪怕是你的细胞在努力表达这段基因

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It was brainstorming with nary a concrete step, but plenty of ideas to chew over.

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We will teach birds to fly, and fishes to swim, and ruminants to chew the cud.

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