In colonial America, British settlers colonizing North America, often wiped with corncobs before switching to old scraps of parchment.

殖民地，定居北的英定居者换用旧的羊皮纸之前，常用玉米芯进行擦拭。

A fat man in a gray suit stood by the desk smoking a corncob.

一身穿灰色西装的胖男人站办公桌旁抽着一根玉米棒。

Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll.

劳拉只有一用手帕包着的玉米芯，但它是好娃娃。

He puffed on his corncob pipe, frowning.

他皱起眉头，抽着玉米芯烟斗。

Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was21 a good doll.

劳拉只有一用手帕包着的玉米芯，但它是一好娃娃。

Do we know what happened to the top hats and the corncob pipes?

那雪人的大帽子和烟斗上哪？

But he knew all about the Moon: dry, lifeless, rough as a corncob. Sometimes it looked like a sun-seared peach pit, sometimes like smallpox.

气候干燥、无生气，表面坑洼的像根玉米棒。有时，月面看起来像晒干的桃核，有时又像天花。

It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob.

苏珊只是玉米芯，这不是她的错。

In late spring, the city starts bombing breeding grounds with larvicide - ground-up corncobs saturated with naturally occurring soil bacteria that are deadly to baby mosquitoes but generally harmless to other life.

春末，纽约开始用幼虫杀蚊剂轰炸滋生蚊子的地区，这种杀虫剂就是把碾碎的玉米棒浸泡自然产生的土壤细菌中，这些细菌对小蚊子是致命的，但通常对其他生物无害。