1. With every decision, you're snipping away the choice you don't want. 每做一个决定，你都会抛弃你所不要的选择。
2. True: Snipping cuticles puts you at risk for painful hangnails or, even worse, infections. 真相：修剪死皮会有长倒刺的风险，很痛苦，或者更糟，会传染疾病。
3. Among her other eyespot studies, snipping 20 feather tips out of males' trains ruined courtship success. 在她的另一项有关眼斑的研究中，毁掉雄性孔雀的20只羽毛也就毁掉了求偶成功的可能性。
4. Charlie asked as he grabbed a pair of scissors and started snipping off the heads of the grain in the grain field. 查理边拿着剪子修剪着田里的谷物边问。
5. The genetic equivalent of a tailor who USES molecular "fingers" to grab onto DNA, before snipping it apart and stitching in a new sequence could lead to safer gene therapies. 遗传就像一位“裁缝”，用像“手指”一样的分子先抓住DNA，把它剪开后再缝合成一个新DNA链。这有可能是较为安全的基因疗法。
