waxing

He began to wax lyrical about his new car .

他开始兴高采烈地谈论他的新车。

The wax began to run .

蜡开始熔化了。

He broke the wax seal and unrolled the paper .

他揭去封蜡，把纸卷展开。

I panicked , I cried ─ the whole ball of wax .

我惊慌失措，我大喊大叫——什么反应都有。

Melted wax dribbled down the side of the candle .

熔化了的蜡一滴滴从蜡烛边上流下。

Wax polish preserves wood and leather .

上光蜡可保护木材和皮革。

A thick layer of wax was spread over the surface

表面涂上了厚厚的一层蜡。

She could go shopping , and wax her legs .

她可以去逛商店，顺便除一下腿毛。

Her skin is pale , the texture of fine wax .

她肤色苍白，肤质细腻如蜡。

We 'd have long talks while she helped me wax the floor .

她帮我给地板打蜡时我们谈了很久。

Hearing can be affected by ear wax blocking the ear canal .

耳垢堵塞耳道可能会影响听力。

The museum displays wax likenesses of every US president .

这家博物馆陈列着历任美国总统的蜡像。

She loved the scent in the house of wax polish .

她喜欢房子里打过蜡的味道。

It was recorded on a wax cylinder .

它被记录在一个蜡质圆柱上。

The final stage of waxing left it with a satin sheen .

最后上完蜡后，它看起来犹如缎子般光滑亮泽。

There were coloured candles which had spread pools of wax on the furniture

彩色蜡烛在家具上留下一摊摊蜡油。

I covered the scroll in sealing wax , and affixed a red ribbon .

我用封蜡将卷轴封好，并系上一根红丝带。

The child moulded the wax into a candle .

孩子把蜡捏成了一根蜡烛。

Wax is ductile when heated .

蜡在受热时是可塑的。

I took the wax figure as a real person .

我把蜡像当成真人了。

The wax from the two candles fused as they burned .

两根蜡烛上的蜡燃烧时熔化在一起。

You should put some wax on those boots .

你应该给那些靴子打上一些蜡。

Apply a little wax polish .

涂一点蜡油。

He 's modelling a unicorn in wax .

他用蜡制作独角兽。

Like floor wax , the oil made the floors shiny and helped protect the wood .

像地板蜡一样,油使地板发亮,有助于保护木材。

Researchers in Spain and England recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene , which accounts for 40 % of plastics ．

西班牙和英国的研究人员最近发现,大蜡蛾的幼虫可以分解占塑料40%的聚乙烯。

The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours , and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams , or almost 3 % of it ．

研究小组在一个商业聚乙烯购物袋里放置了100个蜡螟蠕虫，12小时后，这些蜡虫消耗并分解了大约92毫克的塑料，几乎占总数的3%。

＂ Wax is a complex mixture , but the basic bond in polyethylene , the carbon-carbon bond , is there as well , ＂ she explains , ＂ The wax worm evolved a method or system to break this bond ．＂

“蜡是一种复杂的混合物，但其内部也存在聚乙烯中的基本键——碳碳双键，”她解释道，“而蜡螟蠕虫进化出了一种方法或系统来破坏这种键。”

For an increasing number of women , whitening their teeth has become an integral part of their beauty routine - as normal as colouring their hair or waxing their legs .

对于越来越多的女性来说，美白牙齿已经变成她们美容护理项目中不可分割的一部分，跟染发或者除腿毛一样稀松平常。

Each egg laid by the queen bee is put into a little wax cell , and changes first into a little white thing like a maggot without legs , which is called a larva .

蜂后产下的每一颗卵都被放入到小的蜡室之中。最初，它们会孵化成像蛆虫那样没有腿的白色物体，这就是幼虫。