Winkles must be boiled before we eat them.

要煮过才能吃。

The winkle has gills inside its body to breathe with, and a little stomach and a little heart.

体内, 有用呼吸的鳃, 还有胃和心脏。

The winkle lays its little eggs upon the sea-weed that grows on the sea-shore.

在海岸边生长的海藻上, 产下小小的卵。

The tongue of the winkle is very long and narrow, and is covered with very small teeth.

的舌头很窄很长, 上面布满了细小的牙齿。

The winkle is often called the " sea-snail, " because it lives in the sea, and looks like a snail.

叫“海蜗牛”, 因为它生活在海里, 看上去又很像蜗牛。

The winkle uses its tongue like a saw to cut off bits of the sea-weed on which it feeds.

吃海藻的时候, 就用这些像锯一样的牙齿, 把海藻一点一点切下。

" Winkle, winkle! Wink, wink, wink! Maa, maa-a" ! bleated Nanny.

“眨眼，眨眼！眨眼，眨眼，眨眼！Maa，maa-a”！咩咩保姆。

Why don't I pay a call on her? See if I can winkle out the truth.

要不我去会会她 看看能否探明真相。

No wonder Professor Sadun et al reckon that hiring processes need to get a lot better at winkling out social skills.

因教授等人认为招聘流程需要在发掘社交技能方面有所改进，这不足为奇了。

" It took all my charm to winkle him out of his Book Tower" .

" 我施尽浑身解数才把他拉出藏书塔。"

The rising novelist is never pestered to come to gin and winkles with the plumber and his wife.

这位冉冉升起的小说家从不纠缠着与水管工和他的妻子一起去喝杜松子酒和温克尔斯。

Zappos and Amazon, two online retailers, have experimented with pay-to-quit programmes designed to winkle out new hires who are not motivated to stay.

Zappos和亚马逊这两家在线零售商已经尝试了离职补偿计划，目的是剔除那些没有留任动力的新员工。

For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, winkling out hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, begging response from those around them.

由于这个原因，作家喋喋不休地谈论自己的书，去掉隐意，加上新的，向周围的人征求意见。

Hmm, just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing.

哈哈，就是因为我们没用那俩小眼睛看见过，我们就什么都不信。

As the tide goes out rock pools appear so there are opportunities for winkle  picking and shrimp catching close to the shore.

当潮水退去时，岩石池就会出现，因有机会在海岸附近采摘海和抓虾。

At the interview stage one task facing the firm's recruiters is to winkle out the truth of what a person actually contributed to a project.

在面试阶段，公司招聘人员的一项任务是努力弄清某个人到底对项目做出了什么贡献。

The Creature stuck his great talon up his nose in a disgusting fashion and tried to winkle out the tickling flea that was irritating him.

这只动物以一种恶心的方式把他的大爪子伸进鼻子里，试图挖出让他发痒的跳蚤。

For this assignment, we were the Mr. Clean. The plan: look around, talk to the locals, try to winkle out some actionable intelligence, and then start kicking the hornets' nest.

执行这个任务时，我们就是清廉先生。计划是：环顾四周，与当地人交谈，设法找出一些可以采取行动的情报，然后开始捅马蜂窝。