A fat man in a gray suit stood by the desk smoking a corncob.

个身穿灰色西装的胖男人站在办公桌旁抽着根玉米棒。

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

劳拉只有个用手帕包着的玉米芯，它是个好娃娃。

He puffed on his corncob pipe, frowning.

他皱起眉头，抽着玉米芯烟斗。

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

劳拉只有个用手帕包着的玉米芯，它是个好娃娃。

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

那雪人的帽子和烟斗哪了呢？

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、了无生气，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。

It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob.

苏珊只是个玉米芯，这不是她的错。