You have to eat them with a wooden fork, because a metal one will get too hot and burn your tongue.

你必须用木叉来吃鳗鱼，因为金属叉会变得太烫，灼伤你的舌头。

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Then the doctor had to use force. He grasped the childs head with his left hand and tired to get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth.

于是医生采用强制，他用自己的左手抓住女孩的头，然后试图把冰冷的压舌器放到她的牙齿中间。

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It turned out that my friend Mark Pritchard, an introverted writer with a tongue piercing, attended a Lutheran church with wooden pews where he sang old-fashioned hymns every Sunday.

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