Examples were used to flesh out the skeleton of the argument.

通过例证使干巴巴的论点充实起来。

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And Aida said, 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of me.

爱达说，这是我其中之一的骨头，也是我肉身的一部分，她应被叫做女人，因为她来自我的身体。

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Without him, we would never eat our flesh and blood out of house and home. We would have to say good riddance to the green-eyed monster and breaking the ice would be as dead as a doornail.

莎士比亚知道引人注目的话语和饼干一样有吸引力，没有他我们从不会吃肉喝血，不会倾家荡产，我们不得不说可喜的摆脱了绿眼怪，打破僵局将会是一命呜呼。

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I don't know it positively. I'm about to give an example of this which I hope will flesh out what I'm trying to get across; let's look at a couple of passages in Saussure that may make the point.

不能主动地认识,更具体地举例来说;,我们来看看索绪尔是怎么论述这一点的。

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Sitting on the ground, they take a piece of raw flesh out of the bucket beside them, threading it onto a stick.

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One group was made to watch a lengthy video, which showed the leg of a policeman with a large piece of flesh gouged out of it and the charred remains of five people, including an eight-month-old boy, killed when a motorcycle shop was set on fire.

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Pub manager Mark Phillips said staff told him that the man reappeared at about 11pm with bits of bark hanging off him and flesh gouged out of his limbs.

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