People chew it to cleanse the tastebuds in the mouth and support fresh breath.

VOA: special.2011.03.16

The blood of sacrificial animals is assigned by God as a detergent, if you will, to cleanse the sanctuary of the impurities that are caused by the sinful deeds of the Israelites.

祭祀动物的血液被上帝指定为清洁剂，如果你想，它可以用来清除圣所中,由以色列人的罪恶行为带来的不洁。

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But the hymn at the same time is something like the process, the process by which Milton is attempting to purge and cleanse his poetic voice and make it a voice that will actually be equal to the extraordinary ambition that he has for it.

但颂歌同时又像一个过程，在这个过程中弥尔顿尝试净化,他诗歌的语言，把它变的,像他当初想的那样非同寻常,人人都渴望得到。

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Elections could be at least five years away, while the commodore conducts what he calls a mission to cleanse Fiji of corruption and racism.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Now we've been charting for a couple of weeks now Milton's long-standing project to purge his lips of secular interests and to cleanse his literary consciousness of the tempting influence of secular literary voices, and one of those voices is obviously Shakespeare's.

现在我们已经讨论了几个星期了,弥尔顿长期坚持的项目像净化世俗利益,净化世俗的文学看法的影响,对他文学意识诱惑，其中有一个看法显然是莎士比亚的。

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