cotton swab

基本解释

We've all heard the warning, yet many of us still reach for the cotton swab when we feel a little plugged up.
我们都听到过这样的警告，但我们中的许多人觉得耳朵眼有点堵的时候，仍然要用棉签去掏耳朵。耳科医生说千万不要这样做。
Puncturing the ear drum with a cotton swab can lead to everything from a hole in the eardrum to paralysis of the face, to deafness to vertigo.
用棉签刺穿耳膜，能导致从耳膜穿孔到面部麻痹，从耳聋到眩晕等等一系列的疾病。
The researchers also recorded people's blood pressure, pulse and secretion of a high-stress hormone called cortisol, which can be measured in the saliva and collected with a cotton swab.
研究人员还记录了被试的血压、脉搏和压力之下会分泌的、被称为皮质醇的荷尔蒙，这种荷尔蒙含量只需要用棉球收集唾液，就可以测得。

Flanked by framed faces of funnymen, Podrebarac boasted that orders were flowing in from retailers like Ace Hardware, and demonstrated how the product would work by dipping a faux anthrax-tainted cotton swab into a vial of red liquid.
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