This was apparently something that Beaumont observed first-hand, by dropping hunks of meat into a cup filled with St. Martin's personal gastric fluids.
What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?
倘若有块头船长命令我去拿把扫帚来打扫甲板,那又算得什么呢? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?我说,这种羞辱,要是拿到《新约》天平上去称一称话,究竟能有多少分量呀?
(Sighs) It led her to write fanfiction with phrases like " gorgeous cerulean orbs" , or (Laughter) " manly hunks of muscle." (Laughter) Kind of embarrassing.
Her team recently discovered the charred remains of star lily roots in South Africa's Border Cave… hunks of roasted root that date to 170,000 years ago.
So of course, seeing as they're so reactive, you don't find hunks of them lying around in nature; instead, chemists must extract them from compounds containing them.