in january 2010 researchers reported using a computer-controlled hologram to twist beams of laser light into pretzel shapes.
研究人员在2010年1月的报告中说,使用计算机控制的全息图像来扭曲激光的光束,使它成为成类似椒盐卷饼式的形状。
while watching a football game at the white house in 2002, bush choked on a pretzel and fell off his couch, leading to the bruises seen in this photo.
2002年,当在白宫观看一场橄榄球比赛时,小布什突然被一小块法式脆饼干噎到,并从长沙发上摔了下来。这张照片中小布什脸上展现出的淤青就是那时留下的。
pretzel is indeed thought to come from a german word bretzel described as referring to a kind of thin bread roll twisted into a knot and salted before baking.
人们普遍认为,单词pretzel确实是从德语单词bretzel衍生而来的,它被用来指称一种在烤前撒上粗盐粒、两端被打成小结的细面包卷。
lyla danced on air and, in the morning, found herself on the kitchen floor or coiled into a pretzel in her mother’s garden. some mornings, she woke up with a prize in her hand.
而李拉在空中自由自在地舞蹈,次日清晨,却发现自己躺在厨房的地板上,或是像个花卷般蜷缩在母亲的花园里。
the situation: you feel guilty about inhaling an entire bag of pretzel m&ms, so you confess to your co-worker about your diet slip-up.
这句话的语境是:你刚吃了一整袋m&m牌的椒盐饼干,感到很罪恶,所以就跟你的同事倾诉你的减肥计划流产了。
the word pretzel comes either from the latin pretiole, which means 「little gift」, or from the italian bracciatelli, which means 「small arms」.
pretzel这个词源自于拉丁语pretiloe,意思是「小礼物」,或者源自于意大利语bracciatelli,意思是「小胳膊」。
partly because this is so cool, but mostly because i just scarfed a bunch of gummy orcs and the white chocolate pretzel tree of gondor.
一部分是因为这太酷了,不过更主要的是因为我只是拼接了一堆树胶妖怪和白巧克力椒盐脆饼树。
when the rig sank, the riser broke near the top while remaining attached to the blowout preventer at the bottom, bending itself like a pretzel in its subsequent collapse.
当鉆井下沉时,海底立管在顶部附近破裂,另一端还连在防喷阀上。在随后的倒塌中,它像脆饼一样弯曲。
the humble-looking naxi bread is a mix of an italian pizza bianco (with its slightly oily texture) and a pretzel (with its addictive saltiness).
这种饼卖相平平,它很像意大利比萨饼(比它更油)和椒盐饼(比它更咸香)的混合体。
but at one of his first public lectures that i attended, i found my intellectual sensibilities twisting into a pretzel as he threw back his magnificent head and intoned: 「gravity is love.」
然而参加他首批公开演讲的其中一次,当他仰着大脑袋,煞有其事地说「地心引力是爱情」时,我的知性被扭转成了法国脆饼。
all we know is that in 610 a.d. a monk in northern italy first twisted the pretzel into its unusual shape.
我们所知的只是在公元610年,意大利北部有个修道士第一次把一种面包扭曲成这种与众不同的形状。
although there isn’t authoritative evidence to back this story up, the etymology of pretzel tends to support at least part of the story.
尽管人们并没有权威的证据来证实这个故事,但至少它还是部分得到了pretzel词源的支持。