snipping

基本解釋

True: Snipping cuticles puts you at risk for painful hangnails or, even worse, infections.
真相：修剪死皮會有長倒刺的風(fēng)險，很痛苦，或者更糟，會傳染疾病。
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.
遺傳就像一位“裁縫”，用像“手指”一樣的分子先抓住DNA，把它剪開后再縫合成一個新DNA鏈。這有可能是較為安全的基因療法。
One approach for locating and snipping DNA strands involves "zinc fingers" - proteins that bind to DNA and can be linked together to recognise extended stretches of DNA with very high specificity.
一種定位和剪開基因鏈的方法叫做“鋅指”——由基因鏈組成的蛋白質(zhì)，它可以通過高特異性辨識到DNA的“接頭”，并和DNA相互連接起來。

This painstaking, largely unsung work of snipping out defunct bits of legislation, and improving the rest, was probably his greatest achievement.
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He said it was difficult to compare experiences and chooses to concentrate on his happy players, snipping away at basketball nets to take back to campus.
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If you snip something, or if you snip at or through something, you cut it quickly using sharp scissors.