Children are linguistic sponges, but this doesn't mean that cursory exposure is enough.

儿童的语言可塑性较强，但这并不意味着粗略地接触足够。

His brain felt like a wrung sponge.

他的大脑像是一拧干的。

Most fathers in the same situation would either want to live vicariously through their children's lives or sponge off their backs, but your father, he's just trying to protect you.

大多数父亲遇到这种情况要是想让孩子实现自己未能实现的梦想要靠孩子挣钱，但你父亲只是想保护你。

Hey, Bec. Hey, sponge down, sponge down.

小贝，把放下，放下。

As a child, you're a sponge, you learn what you're shown.

孩童时期的你，像一吸水，看到什你学什。

The brain of a toddler is like a sponge, hungry for knowledge.

幼儿的大脑像一吸水，大量汲取知识。

Sponges look like veins across the faces.

动物看起来像脸上的血管。

Women, by contrast, may pick from a range which includes the Pill, vaginal rings, copper intrauterine devices, hormonal intrauterine devices, contraceptive sponges, cervical caps, spermicides, diaphragms, female condoms and tubal ligation.

相比之下，女性的选择包括避药、阴道避环、铜质宫内节育器、含激素宫内节育器、避、子宫帽、杀精剂、避膜、女用安全套和输卵管结扎术。

Let's get back to it. Pull back on that retractor. Give me more suction. I'll need a sponge on a stick.

我们继续。把拉勾拉好。吸一吸。我需要一个棉棒。

The Romans used a shared sponge in their communal latrines, which actually spread disease.

罗马人在公共厕所里共用一，实际上容易造成疾病的传播。

120 years ago, sponge divers discovered a shipwreck off the tiny island of Antikythera in Greece, and what they found changed our understanding of human history forever.

120年前，采集的潜水员在希腊一个名叫安提基特拉的小岛附近发现一艘沉船，正是这次发现永久的颠覆了我们对人类历史的认识。

Wetlands are like giant sponges and store water from floods.

湿地像是巨大的，汲取洪水中的水分。

But determining if sponges were the first kind of animal has been tricky.

但要确定是否是第一类动物一直是个很棘手的问题。

It will just stick to every sand and grain that exists throughout that soil and then form this structure that enables the soil to retain water and nutrients just like a sponge.

它粘附在土壤中的每一粒沙子和颗粒上，然后形成这种结构，土壤能够像一样保持水分和养分。

With a hot glue gun, pour some glue onto the fingers like this and stick cut strips of a coarse sponge onto them.

用热熔胶枪，像这样在手指上涂点胶水，然后粘上剪切好的粗糙条。

So this week at bath time, I hope that you'll put aside the top-rated toys, forget that mental to-do list for a moment, grab some measuring cups, some kitchen sponges, and give it a try.

所以，这周的洗澡时间，我希望你能丢开那评分很好的玩具，暂时忘记脑中的待办事项，拿上几个量杯、几厨房，尝试一下。

So, they act, kind of, like a sponge.

因此有点像。

You notice how the water went right through the sponge.

你注意到水是如何直接穿过的。

Because there had been a scorpion hiding underneath the sponge. And it stung me.

有一只蝎子藏在了沐浴下面，然后它叮了我。

These are crisp biscuity bites of dry sponge cake.

这些是干蛋糕的酥脆饼干小。