While spears were about killing from a distance, broad swords and clubs epitomized brute force.

矛是来远距离杀人的，而宽剑和棍棒则是蛮力的象征。

Remember sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you.

棍棒和石头可以打断你的骨头，但是言语却不会让你受伤。

For most of its history, diversity training has been pretty much a cudgel, pounding white men into submission with a mix of finger-wagging and guilt-mongering.

大多数时候，多元化培训都像一个棍棒，夹杂着拒绝或兜售內疚感等伎俩来迫使白人男性屈服。

Above all, don't use your resolutions as a stick to beat yourself with.

最重要的是，不要把你的新年愿望当做痛打自己的棍棒使。

When we say " stick" we don't mean giving a stick.

当我们说" 棍棒" 的时候，我们并不是指给一根棍子。

The government has tried using sticks to push people away from bullion.

政府曾试图棍棒政策迫使人们远离黄金。

After that, they began to make small marks on sticks and bones.

后来，他们开始棍棒和骨头制作一些小件。

Dodos, Dutch sailors would club them to death.

渡渡鸟，荷兰水手会棍棒将它们打死。

Sticks wrapped in cloth were used in parts of China as well.

在中国的部分地区也使布包裹的棍棒。

Is it like cudgel playing or other sportful forms of bloodshed?

这跟耍棍棒或其它流血打斗的小玩意一样吗？

Along the way they witnessed helpless children and heavy sticks used as weapons.

一路上，他们目睹了无助的儿童和被作武器的沉重棍棒。

Get lots of bows, and arrows, and staffs.

买大量弓箭和棍棒。

Trying to make a plate out of sticks.

试图小棍棒做个盘子呢。

Body, male. Baton of clay painted in red stripes, with imitation mace-head of clay.

“遗体，男性。泥塑棍棒，表面涂有红色条纹，顶端是仿狼牙棒头。

And I think it would use it as a club against the Deinonychus.

我猜它把尾巴当成抵抗恐爪龙的棍棒。

And Namib Desert golden moles regularly stick their heads into the sand, which likely helps them use their large, club-like middle ear bones to sense low-frequency activity in mounds more than 20 meters away.

纳米布沙漠金色鼹鼠经常把头插进沙子里，这很可能有助于它们利大如棍棒的中耳骨来感知 20 多米外土丘上的低频活动。

He sometimes pictured as a huge man with a silver face, a golden moustache and who wields an enormous club, a battle ax, a bow and arrow and thunderbolts; basically, you name it, he is going to stab someone with it.

他有时被描绘成一个巨大的人，银色的面孔，金色的胡子，手持巨大的棍棒、战斧、弓箭和雷电；基本上，你说什么，他就会它刺杀某人。

Thanks. That’s great. Because if you decided to hang on to my Joni Mitchell CDs I’d have to come after you with a club.

谢谢，如果你还扣着我的Joni Mitchell的CD不放（加拿大著名女歌手），恐怕我得拿着棍棒追赶着你要了。

'Horse riding' is the activity of riding a horse; and 'golf' is a game in which you use long sticks called clubs to hit a small white ball into a hole in the ground.

“horse riding（骑马）”是一种骑马的活动;“golf（打高尔夫球）”是这样的一种游戏，你要一个叫做棍棒（club）的长棍把一个小白球击进地上的洞里。

Some of those who heard him threw down their hoes and picks to follow, so by the time he heard the crash of waves a dozen men walked behind his horse, touched by god and desirous of drowning.

卵石镇是数千渔民的家园，镇中有座方形塔堡，四角都有角楼，渔民们破败的房屋则胡乱地挤在塔堡周围。伊伦手下那四十个淹人正在镇内等他，灰色沙滩上是他们搭建的海豹皮帐篷和浮木陋屋。他们的手因盐水而粗糙，因结网而磨伤，因操桨下锄挥斧而生茧，但浮木棍棒在他们手中犹如精钢武器般无可阻挡，那是伟大的神灵在海底的兵工场为他们打造的神兵。