Hold the floss tightly between your thumbs and forefingers, with about an inch (2.5 cm) of floss between them.
两只手的食指和大拇指分别捏紧牙线的一端，中间留出一英寸长（2.5厘米） 。
Craft Resources also sells yarn and embroidery floss.
“手工之家”也售卖纱线和绣花丝线。
——我有时候用牙线。
Brush and floss regularly to reduce or prevent stains.
经常用牙刷和牙线洁牙。
Make necklaces out of colored pasta shapes and dental floss.
用牙线和彩色意大利面做项链。
We can use nylon dental floss to clean our teeth after three meals.
三餐之后我们可以使用尼龙牙线来清理我们的牙齿。
Just think of all those bits of food that would be left behind if we didn't floss.
如果不使用牙线的话，那些食物残渣就会留在牙缝里。
If you only want to brush and floss your teeth once a day, do it before bedtime.
如果你一天只想刷一次牙，那就在睡前好了。
All of us know that we need to brush our teeth twice-a-day and floss on a regular basis.
我们都知道应该一天刷两次牙并有规律地用牙线洁牙。
And dental floss can go where no brush has gone before: between teeth, along the gumline.
而牙线可以进到牙刷不能到达的地方：牙间隙，牙龈边沿。
Dentists advise their patients to brush and floss regularly to prevent their teeth from decaying.
牙医建议他们的病人定期刷牙并用洁牙线剔牙，防止蛀牙。
Furthermore, research has shown that people who floss actually live longer then people who don't.
另外，有科学研究显示，习惯用牙线清洁牙齿的人比那些没有这一习惯的人更长寿。
Lucky us, we have dental floss, which removes food particles in between teeth and at the gum line.
幸运的是，我们有牙线，它能去除齿缝间及牙龈上的食物残渣。
Why does the average drug store contain 55 floss alternatives and more than 350 kinds of toothpaste?
为什么一般的药店会卖55种牙线和350种牙膏？
Britons who visit the dentist feel cheated if all they get is a quick peer and a reminder to floss.
到牙医诊所看病的英国人如果只是得到医师快速粗略的查看和一个清洁牙缝的建议，他们就会有受骗的感觉。
If you’re following your dentist’s orders, you floss every day to prevent tooth decay and gum disease.
按照牙医的建议，你每天剔牙可以防止蛀牙和预防牙周炎。
Stress also leads to poor oral care; more than 50% of people don't brush or floss regularly when stressed.
压力还会导致疏漏的口腔护理： 在面临压力时，有50%的人不再规律性地刷牙或使用牙线。
Those who don't floss regularly have much higher chances of developing an oral disease, such as gingivitis.
不经常使用牙线的人会更容易患上牙龈炎等口腔疾病。
Back in the day, when we ate mammoth meat off the bone and didn't floss afterward, our teeth tended to fall out.
从前，当我们吃猛犸还要把肉从骨头上撕下来也不用牙线时，我们的牙齿很容易脱落。
Use your thumbs and forefingers to gently pull the floss from the gumline to the top of the tooth to scrape off plaque.
用拇指和食指沿着齿龈向牙冠方向缓和地拉扯牙线，以去除牙菌斑。
Floss your teeth The gerontologist Dr Michael Roizen claims that flossing your teeth every day can add six years to your life.
用牙线清洁牙齿。老年医学家迈克尔罗伊森博士称每天用牙线清洁牙齿能多活6年。
"I will floss every day" will only take about a week or two to perfect, whereas "I will be able to run a marathon" might take much longer.
“我每天用牙线剔牙”只需要一两个星期就可以做到完美了，但“我能够跑一场马拉松”则需要长得多的时间。
If I told you I'd give you a million bucks if you flossed your teeth right now, you'd run out and get some floss and make it happen, right?
假如我许诺，如果你现在开始用牙线清洁牙齿，我会给你一百万美金。你可能会立刻找牙线来清洁牙齿，我说的对吗？
Perhaps it's because people who floss tend to be more health conscious than people who don't？Thought for the day：Floss and be your body's boss.
也许是使用牙线的人比不使用牙线的人更具健康意识？今日一言： 使用牙线，做自己身体的老板。
In addition, most of the Flux users who were surveyed by their dentists agreed that Flux's mint flavor would encourage people to floss more often.
而且，牙医所调查的多数Flux的使用者同意Flux的薄荷香味促使人们更经常地使用牙线。
You'll need to continue helping your child brush and floss his teeth until he's at least age 5. Some children may need help brushing until age 10.
至少在五岁以前，都应该帮助孩子刷牙和洁牙，有些孩子可能直到10岁还需要帮助。
Although I know that every floss will work well enough, I still can’t help but contemplate the pros and cons of waxed versus unwaxed, spearmint versus wintermint.
尽管我知道哪种牙线都好用，可还是忍不住去琢磨到底是加蜡还是无蜡，到底是留兰香型还是冬日香型。
As a result, they act surprised when it takes me 10 minutes to pick a sandwich or when I confess that I still get mild panic attacks when choosing floss at the drugstore.
结果当他们看到我花十分钟才点了个三明治，或者听说我在药店挑牙线的时候会小小地恐慌，都觉得不可思议。
In essence, my basic decision-making flaw is that I tend to treat easy consumer decisions (toothpaste, floss, shampoo, laundry detergent, etc.) as if they were really difficult.
本质上说，我做决定时的根本缺陷在于我习惯性地将简单的消费决定(例如挑选牙膏、牙线、洗头水、洗衣液之类)想得太复杂。
In essence, my basic decision-making flaw is that I tend to treat easy consumer decisions (toothpaste, floss, shampoo, laundry detergent, etc.) as if they were really difficult.
本质上说，我做决定时的根本缺陷在于我习惯性地将简单的消费决定(例如挑选牙膏、牙线、洗头水、洗衣液之类)想得太复杂。
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