rats

基本解释

Rats are really cunning.
老鼠真贼。
《新英汉大辞典》
The rats gnawed away some of her furniture.
老鼠咬坏了她的部分家具。
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Some of the furniture in this old house has been gnawed away by rats.
这所老房子里的一些家具已经被老鼠嗑坏了。
《新英汉大辞典》

Most of these are shared among humans as well as mice, rats and other mammals used for comparison in the study.
Instead of imagining lobotomizing us, turning us into rats, suppose we just say, look, the problem is really this.
这次不用额叶切除术把我们变成老鼠，问题的症结是。
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As Little Albert was playing with the rat, " "Oh, I like rats, oh," and banged the metal bar right here .
小阿尔伯特正在和老鼠玩耍，“噢，我喜欢老鼠“,重击那里的金属棒。
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But in animal tests in 1995 rats developed tumors, and Martin had to cut the program.
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