1.Most often though, pica is reported alongside nutritional deficiency.

但最常见的情况是，异食癖伴有营养缺乏。

2.Like any consumption of non-food items, pica has the risk of infections, and poisoning.

和其他误食非食物类物品的情况一样，异食癖也有感染和中毒的风险。

3.A pet that's stressed or bored may indulge in pica, or the ingestion of non-edible materials.

紧张或无聊的宠物可能会沉迷于异食癖，换句话说，在这个状态的它们会吃非食用材料。

4.Sometimes this also presents as the consumption of inedible substances like soil and chalk, a condition known as pica.

有时也表现为食用非食用物，比如吃土和吃，这种情况被称为异食癖。

5.Forget the chalk, this kid's got pica.

- 别用，这孩子有异食癖。机翻

6.OK. What is another word for the keyboard sign that represents a paragraph? Is it… a) pilcrow? b) bodkin? or c) pica?

好的。哪一个键盘符号代表一个段落？a) pilcrow（段落符号）？b) bodkin（锥子）？ c) pica （十二点活字）？

7.He's not talking. It could be pica. But doubtful for a man his age. Maybe an oedipal complex or idolization of the dolls as partners.

他不肯说，可能是异食癖。但是这个年龄的人一般不会，也可能是恋母情结或者是对这些娃娃的偶像崇拜。

8.The SpaceX engineers found out how to make the PICA material less expensively and improved the underlying recipe so that Dragon—from day one—could withstand the heat of a reentry coming back from Mars.

SpaceX的工程师们找到如何使PICA材料成本更低的方法, 并改进底层配方, 这样Dragon从第一天起就可以承受从火星返回的再入热量。机翻