For this assignment, we were the Mr. Clean. The plan: look around, talk to the locals, try to winkle out some actionable intelligence, and then start kicking the hornets' nest.

执行这个任务时，我们就是清廉先生。计划是：环顾四，与当地人交谈，设法找出一些可以采取行动情报，然后开始捅马蜂窝。

For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, winkling out hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, begging response from those around them.

由于这个原因，作喋喋不休地谈论自己书，去掉隐意，加上新，围人征求意见。

At the interview stage one task facing the firm's recruiters is to winkle out the truth of what a person actually contributed to a project.

在面试阶段，公司招聘人员一项任务是努力弄清某个人到底对项目做出了什么贡献。

Zappos and Amazon, two online retailers, have experimented with pay-to-quit programmes designed to winkle out new hires who are not motivated to stay.

Zappos和亚马逊这两在线零售商已经尝试了离职补偿计划，目是剔除那些没有留任动力新员工。

The winkle is often called the " sea-snail, " because it lives in the sea, and looks like a snail.

滨螺也叫“海”, 因为它生活在海里, 看上去又很。

Winkles must be boiled before we eat them.

滨螺要煮过才能吃。

No wonder Professor Sadun et al reckon that hiring processes need to get a lot better at winkling out social skills.

因此萨登教授等人认为招聘流程需要在发掘社交技能方面有所改进，这也不足为奇了。

The winkle lays its little eggs upon the sea-weed that grows on the sea-shore.

滨螺在海岸边生长海藻上, 产下小小卵。

The winkle has gills inside its body to breathe with, and a little stomach and a little heart.

滨螺体内, 有用来呼吸鳃, 还有胃和心脏。

The tongue of the winkle is very long and narrow, and is covered with very small teeth.

滨螺舌头很窄很长, 上面布满了细小牙齿。

The winkle uses its tongue like a saw to cut off bits of the sea-weed on which it feeds.

滨螺吃海藻时候, 就用这些锯一样牙齿, 把海藻一点一点切下来。

As the tide goes out rock pools appear so there are opportunities for winkle  picking and shrimp catching close to the shore.

随着潮水退去，岩石池会出现，因此在近岸处有机会捡螺和抓虾。

No wonder Professor Sadu Netal reckoned that hiring processes need to get a lot better at winkling out social skills.

难怪萨杜·内塔尔教授认为招聘流程需要大幅改进才能更好地挖掘出社交技能。

" It took all my charm to winkle him out of his Book Tower" .

" 我施尽浑身解数才把他拉出藏书塔。"

The Creature stuck his great talon up his nose in a disgusting fashion and tried to winkle out the tickling flea that was irritating him.

这只动物以一种恶心方式把他大爪子伸进鼻子里，试图挖出让他发痒跳蚤。

The rising novelist is never pestered to come to gin and winkles with the plumber and his wife.

这位冉冉升起小说从不纠缠着与水管工和他妻子一起去喝杜松子酒和温克尔斯。

Why don't I pay a call on her? See if I can winkle out the truth.

要不我去会会她 看看能否探明真相。

Hmm, just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing.

哈哈，就是因为我们没用那俩小眼睛看见过，我们就什么都不信。