Many winemakers use cork stoppers; but cork stoppers can leak, crumble, or become moldy, so that those winemakers must often discard a significant proportion of their inventory of bottled wine.

许多酿酒师使用软木塞；但软木塞可能会漏水、碎裂或发霉，因此这些酿酒师常常必须丢弃大量的库存瓶装葡萄酒。

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He was pulling the cork from a bottle of wine.

他在拔一瓶葡萄酒的瓶塞。

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Naomi poured the wine after twirling the cork once or twice.

内奥米把软木塞转了一、两下，给大家斟上酒。

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Folks used to just pull the cork out to let wine breathe, but studies showed it could take more than 24 hours for this to have an impact.

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Cork producers fought back, finally starting to recover lost market share in the wine market by 2010, according to Apcor, the Portuguese cork association.

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The mating song of the male has been described as beginning with a resonant rattle, continuing with a pop-like a cork being pulled from a wine bottle, followed by the pouring of a liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle and ending with the sound of knife grinding.

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