Still, a lot of office grunts wouldn't mind a back rub in the lava, or maybe some tunes

当然,根据调查结果,许多办公室职员觉得在厕所里放音乐或是来个背部按摩是不错的主意。

Of or relating to the Percoidea,a large suborder of spiny-finned fishes that includes the perches,sunfishes,groupers,and grunts .

鲈形亚目属于或关于鲈鱼目的,包括河鲈、翻车鱼、石斑鱼和石鲈的针鳍鱼类的大亚目

They were called grunts .They were the infantrymen,the foot soldiers of the war(Bernard Edelman)

他们被称为格朗茨…也就是步兵,战争中徒步作战的士兵(伯纳德·埃德尔曼)

Young Tom brought the platter of yellowtail, yellow and white grunts , and rock hind up into the cockpit

小汤姆托着这一大盘黄尾鱼、黄白石鲈鱼和岩石斑鱼回到舵舱。

||1: The finest pieces in Mr Gray's book are satire. ||2: One is a Swiftian essay in favour of torture (which some serious-minded lefties took at face value). ||3: Even better is a devastating parody of the Marxist approach to linguistics, involving a (fictional) visit by Ludwig Wittgenstein to the Soviet Union, and his relationship with an (invented) Hungarian academic, L. Revai, who idealises the grunts of slave labourers as a proletarian Ursprache.

||1:此书中最好的作品当属讽刺文学。||2:一篇支持酷刑（某些一本正经的左翼人士便未能辨出其弦外之音）的斯威夫特式随笔可算在其中。||3:而另一篇极佳的戏仿之作更令人叫绝，此文模仿了语言学的马克思主义研究模式，其情节包括路德维希·维特根斯坦对苏联的一次（虚构的）访问，以及他与（作者创造出的）匈牙利学者L·列瓦伊的交往，这位匈牙利学者将奴工的咕哝声理想化，将之提升至无产阶级原始语的高度。

||1: Calling yourself a diaosi has also become a proud statement of solidarity with the masses against the perceived corruption of the wealthy. ||2: The word itself entered the language only recently, appealing to office grunts across the country, especially in the IT industry. ||3: A mostly male species, diaosi are often daydreamers with poor social skills and an obsession with online gaming. ||4: They are slightly different from Japan's marriage-shunning “herbivore” young men in that fewer of them have chosen their station in life. ||5: Society has chosen it for them, especially with property prices climbing well beyond their reach. ||6: Several recent studies show that, while incomes across Chinese society continue to rise, social mobility has worsened. ||7: Yi Chen of Nanjing Audit University and Frank A. Cowell of the London School of Economics found that, since 2000, people at the bottom of society were more likely than in the 1990s to stay where they were. ||8: “China has become more rigid,” they conclude.

||1:自称屌丝已经成了宣称自己是和社会中的大多数一样厌恶富裕群体腐败行为的方式。||2:这个词语最近才出现，最初来自于办公室的闲聊，尤其是IT这个多数工作者都是男性的行业。||3:屌丝通常指那些缺乏社交能力、沉迷网络游戏还老做白日梦的人。||4:他们和日本那些不愿结婚的“食草族”略有不同，极少数食草男已经选择了生活方式。||5:但社会已经为屌丝们作出了选择，尤其是高速上涨的房价让他们根本无法触及。||6:近期的几次调查显示，尽管中国社会的平均工资持续上涨，但社会流动性却进一步恶化了。||7: 南京审计学院的易辰（音）和伦敦政治经济学院的弗兰克·A·康维尔（Frank A. Cowell）发现，同上世纪90年代相比，2000年以后的社会底层群体停留在这个地位上的可能性更大。 ||8:“中国社会已经变得更加僵化了。”他们总结到。

A nuclear meltdown should be "physically impossible", says the Pentagon. The grunts on the ground will be hoping that is right.

国防部表示，核反应堆熔毁“在物理学上是不可能的”。战场上的士兵会希望是这样的。

Much to his surprise, the shop-floor grunts often have no clue who he is.

让老板感到吃惊的是，这些基层员工常常不知道自己的老板是谁。

In contrast, operations specialists such as IBM, Accenture and the Big Four accounting firms employ armies of lower-paid grunts ; and tend to answer to the client firm's finance or tech chiefs.

相反的，譬如IBM、埃森哲咨询公司和四大会计师事务所这样的操作专家则雇佣低薪大军，往往他们却做上了客户公司的财务或技术主管。

But what if the grunts took over and tried to decide among themselves on the best course of action?

但是，假如由士兵来决定最佳行动方针，情况会是如何呢？

Consequently, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually disappointed to receive only short grunts in reply.

和男宝宝讲话的妈妈们只得到简短的回应，就常常觉得失望了。

Others traced it back to music, to the imitation of animal grunts , or to birdsong.

还有的人把语言起源与音乐、模仿鸟和动物的叫声等联系起来。

Given the propensity for human error in such circumstances, mechanised grunts might make such calls better than flesh-and-blood officers.

鉴于人类在那些环境中易于失误的倾向，机械化了士兵更愿意呼叫它们，而不是那些有血有肉的长官。

Another fascinating photo shows a chance encounter between a parrot fish and a school of grey grunts in Galapagos.

另一张迷人的照片记录下加拉帕戈斯群岛水域一只鹦鹉鱼遭遇灰色鲈鱼群的一刻。

Much to his surprise, the shop-floor grunts often have no clue who he is.

让老板感到吃惊的是，这些基层员工常常不知道自己的老板是谁。

The question of when grunts and yelps turned into words and phrases is a tricky one.

什么时候哼哼唧唧的声音变成了单词和短语是个恼人的问题。

Which is worth more: a star or seven grunts ?

谁更有价值：是一位“明星”还是七位普通员工？

In extremis, grunts can complain if they don't like the boss's rules, but they must pick the right things to protest about.

特殊情况下，普通员工如果不喜欢老板定下的规矩，可能会抱怨，但是要注意：表达不满必须挑一些能说的事情。

I remind myself to look for glazed expressions, noncommittal grunts , or darting eyes.

我会提醒自己察看对方是否表情木然、语言含含糊糊或目光不定。

Psychologists have long studied the grunts and winks of nonverbal communication, the vocal tones and facial expressions that carry emotion.

一直以来，心理学家在不断研究非语言类的交流方式，比如小声嘀咕或者使个眼色之类的，这些口头语音和面部表情也能体现人的情感。

A new group of P. I. grunts are moving toward the guard room, tools in hand.

一组新的PI团队手里拿着工具向警卫室走去。

There were laughs and shouts, grunts from men carrying heavy loads of goods, and the sound of voices singing.

院子里有笑声、有喊声，有男人扛重东西被压的哼哼声，还有唱歌的声音。

In it, the grunts act as agents, collecting and exchanging information.

在这项研究中，机器人将担当代理的角色并收集和交换信息。

As you can tell from the frog song recording, the mating calls of this species include a whine followed by a series of grunts , or "chucks. "

正如你从上面那段录音中听到的，这种动物求偶的鸣音由“呜呜”声和一连串“咕噜”声组成。