chewing

• You've been chewing on this affair now a long time .
  你到如今已经考虑这事好久啦。
• She chews it over. it seems hard to digest .
  她在仔细考虑那件事，感到不是滋味儿。
• I hope one day you'll be able to chew the fat together .
  我希望有一天你们能一块聊聊天。
• I think he bit off more than he could chew when he took the job .
  我认为他接受这工作是贪多嚼不烂。
• I chewed him out but good - it won't happen again .
  我把他狠狠地训斥了一番，这样的事不会再发生了。
• In the pines squirrels commonly chew off and drop entire cones .
  松树上的松鼠通常咬掉和弄落整个球果。
• He got so old that he couldn't chew and they had to shoot him .
  它老得无力咀嚼，他们不得不用枪打死它。
• I will no longer chew the cud of misfortune that fate ekes out to us .
  我将不再反复地思考命运给我们的不幸。
• It sounds as if ella is really chewing up the islands down there .
  听起来好象埃拉确实真正朝那边那些岛子袭过来了。
• She was chewing her lips; her round, thin face was frozen with uncertainty .
  她咬着嘴唇；瘦削的脸上滞留着犹豫不定的神色。