Just bitten them right down to the nubs.

又咬到只剩一点点了。

The kind that is exemplified by the term " nub" .

比如以nub这个词为例。

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

只有几棵最健康的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。

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

问题的关键在于央行的两个目标--实现通胀与压低收益率—一定程度上是矛盾的。

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

直觉泵是丹尼特用来称呼思想实验的一个词语。所谓思想实验就是一种意在探究概念核心内容的实验。

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

因此，图贝克女士揭了这一群体变得如此多样化的核心机制似乎是合理的。

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

nub是“没有用处的身体”--耗费氧气、食物和空间，却不带来任何回报的人。

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

最简单的，告诉我们你的发现的要点。

Looks like the rubber nub from under a computer.

像是电脑底座的橡皮垫。

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

这个词指的是团队之外的人，因为这个词的意思不是谁都能懂，所以这个词显得更加意味深长。

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

它基本上只是骨头上的一个小结节，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.

假设一种不太可能的情况，你发现自己在潜水艇上，但又不是船员中的一员，这样的话你就是一个nub。

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.

问题的要点是大臣开始觉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.

我认为这是我们作为父母最关心的问题。这就是我们在观看针对我们女孩的营销时必须考虑的问题。

(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.

（如果你还需要问是什么意思，那么你就是个nub。）虽然潜水艇是很不寻常的环境，但使用行话来表特定的做法、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.

故事的核心实际上是这些近地轨道星座对电信的未来意味着什么，以及国家和政府将如何监管这个竞争日益激烈的空间。

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.

来自缅甸的一个标本保存了一些撕裂的小翼块，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的蚁群之后。