Just bitten them right down to the nubs.

又咬到只剩一点点了。

The nub of the problem is that the bank's twin aims—generating inflation and bringing down yields—are somewhat contradictory.

问题关键在于央行两个目标--实现通胀与压低收益率—一定程度上矛盾。

Intuition pumps are what Mr Dennett calls thought experiments that aim to get at the nub of concepts.

直丹尼特来称呼思想实验一个词语。所谓思想实验就一种意在探究概念核心内容实验。

Small nubs were growing here and there on the healthiest of the plants, but they were not developing well.

只有几棵最健康玉米秧上零星地长了几根小玉米棒，就这几个也长得不太好。

It therefore seems plausible that Ms Turbeck has uncovered the nub of the mechanism by which this group has become so diverse.

因此，图贝克女士揭示了这一群体变得如此多样化核心机制似乎合理。

A nub is a " non-useful body" -someone who uses up oxygen, food and space and offers nothing in return.

nub“没有处身体”--耗费氧气、食物和空间，却不带来任何回报人。

That, of course, is the nub of the matter.

当然，这才问题关键。

A nub is someone who is not on the team, and the opacity of jargon gives the word extra bite.

这个词指团队之外人，因为这个词意思不谁都能懂，所以这个词显得更加意味深长。

At its simplest, tell us the nub of your findings.

最简单，告诉我们你发现要点。

Looks like the rubber nub from under a computer.

像电脑底座橡皮垫。

In mapo tofu, a Sichuanese favourite, chewy nubs of ground beef or pork swimming in a fiery sauce complement silken tofu's yielding delicacy.

麻婆豆腐最受喜爱川菜，筋肉末或猪肉末浸在辣味酱汁里，与嫩豆腐顺滑细腻相得益彰。

And it's basically just a little nub in the bone, to show that the horn will be there in the adult.

它基本上只骨头上一个小结节，表明角会在成人身上出现。

In the very unlikely event that you find yourself on board a submarine but are not a member of the crew, you will be a nub.

假设一种不太可能情况，你发现自己在潜水艇上，但又不船员中一员，这样话你就一个nub。

Maskelyne realized that the nub of the problem lay with finding a mountain of sufficiently regular shape to judge its mass.

Maskelyne 意识到问题关键在于找到一座形状足够规则山来判断它质量。

Through natural selection, this fifth toe shrank away, becoming little more than a tiny nub in some species and disappearing altogether in others.

通过自然选择， 这第五个脚趾缩小了，在某些物种中变成了一个小结点， 而在另一些物种中则完全消失了。

And the nub of the problem is, that the Minister is beginning to think that some member of the Cabinet ought to start telling the British people about them.

问题要点大臣开始得该有位内阁大臣把这些事告诉英国人民。

And I think that that's the nub of our concern as parents. And that's what we have to think about as we watch this marketing towards our girls.

我认为这我们作为父母最关心问题。这就我们在观看针对我们女孩营销时必须考虑问题。

(If you need to ask, you are a nub.) Although submarines are unusual environments, the use of jargon to signify specific practices, objects and people is prevalent in workplaces everywhere.

（如果你还需要问什么意思，那么你就个nub。）虽然潜水艇很不寻常环境，但使行话来表示特定做法、物品和人，这在各种工作场所都很普遍。

The nub of the story is really what these low-earth orbit constellations will mean for the future of telecommunications and how countries and governments are going to regulate this increasingly competitive space.

故事核心实际上这些近地轨星座对电信未来意味着什么，以及国家和政府将如何监管这个竞争日益激烈空间。

And a specimen from Myanmar preserved little torn wing nubs that may indicate it had recently shed it's wings — which happens in some modern ants after a queen goes on a mating flight and settles down to start a new colony.

来自缅甸一个标本保存了一些撕裂小翼块，这可能表明它最近脱落了翅膀——这种情况发生在一些现代蚂蚁身上，在蚁后进行交配飞行并安顿下来开始新蚁群之后。