In late spring, the city starts bombing breeding grounds with larvicide - ground-up corncobs saturated with naturally occurring soil bacteria that are deadly to baby mosquitoes but generally harmless to other life.

在春末，纽约开始用幼虫杀蚊剂轰炸滋生蚊子的地区，这种杀虫剂把碾碎的玉米棒浸泡在自然产生的土壤细菌中，这些细菌对小蚊子致命的，但通常对其生。

But he knew all about the Moon: dry, lifeless, rough as a corncob. Sometimes it looked like a sun-seared peach pit, sometimes like smallpox.

气候干燥、了生气，表面坑洼的像根玉米棒。有时，月面看起来像晒干的桃核，有时又像天花。

In colonial America, British settlers colonizing North America, often wiped with corncobs before switching to old scraps of parchment.

在美殖民地，定居北美的英定居者在换用旧的羊皮纸之前，经常用玉米芯进行擦拭。

He puffed on his corncob pipe, frowning.

抽着的玉米芯烟斗，皱起了眉头。

And then there was Boyd, the corncob kid.

然后玉米棒男孩博伊德。

Yeah, that's him, the guy in regular clothes with an adorable corncob for a head, asking the question, am I man or am I corn?

的，，穿着普通衣服， 头上顶着一个可爱的玉米棒，问自己，我人还玉米？

He has his corncob that he can chew has a sound in it and he'll just look at you and be like.

有个玉米芯，里面有声音，会看着你，像在咀嚼。

Do we know what happened to the top hats and the corncob pipes?

那雪人的大帽子和烟斗上哪了呢？

From MASH to The Simpsons, everybody, they got the corncob pipe, smoking, dark sunglasses, I mean, iron jaw.

从《陆军野战医院》到《辛普森一家》，人人都有玉米芯烟斗， 叼着烟斗，戴着墨镜， 一副铁面私的样子。

Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was21 a good doll.

劳拉只有一个用手帕包着的玉米芯，但它一个好娃娃。

Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll.

劳拉只有一个用手帕包着的玉米芯，但它个好娃娃。

That's his branding, like the corncob pipe and the crushed head.

这的标志，像玉米芯烟斗和被压扁的脑袋一样。

And after that game of mini golf, we ran into Boyd, the corncob kid who had come through a culvert under the road.

在迷你高尔夫球赛后，我们在路上遇到了博伊德，那个穿过路下涵洞的玉米棒小孩。

And he had a corncob pipe that he was smoking in his mouth while he did this over and over again.

嘴里叼着一个玉米芯烟斗，一遍又一遍地这样做着。

And at first Franny was confused, but this was kind of like the thing with the corncob kid.

起初弗兰妮感到困惑，但这有点像那个玉米棒小子的事情。

Out of that culvert came Boyd, who went to our high school, the corncob kid.

从那涵洞里出来的博伊德，我们高中的一个同学，那个玉米棒小子。

He seemed ever conscious of himself as a historical figure, and frequently behaved, even in private, as if he were declaiming from a stage, pacing back and forth, and gesturing theatrically with his corncob pipe.

似乎时刻意识到自己一个历史人，即使在私下里，也常常表现得像在舞台上朗诵一样，来回踱步， 用的玉米芯烟斗做戏剧性的手势。

Boyd said, yeah, but the corncob probably still soothed me.

博伊德说，的，但玉米棒可能仍然让我感到安慰。

MacArthur's got the corncob pipe, the dark glasses.

麦克阿瑟叼着玉米芯烟斗，戴着墨镜。

And I said, I remember your corncob pipe that you still have.

我记得你那根至今还保留着的玉米芯烟斗。