Elephants also use their trunks to yank up clumps of grasses and shove the greenery into their mouths.

大象也会用鼻子拉起丛生的杂草，把草堆进嘴里。

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Please raise the box gently, not yank it up.

请把箱子轻轻地搬起来，不要猛地一拽。

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Yank lined up some black businessmen to sponsor joe as a professional boxer, and he won four fights .

扬克招集了一些黑人商人，出资赞助乔参加职业拳赛，乔连胜四场。

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Speak up in the balcony, you who would yank out the organs. Why?

楼座上那位，就是支持取出那些器官的，为什么这么做？

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But the point that Americans are ruining English is enough to puff a Yank up with pride.

BBC: Viewpoint: American English is getting on well, thanks

Any morning they might wake him up with a siren, whoop, whoop, Are you there Brian, yank up his plastic, rifle through his private property right in front of Parliament.

ECONOMIST: Brian Haw, peace campaigner, died on June 18th, aged 62

But if wages do move ahead decisively, then it will be harder for the bank to put inflation back into the cage, and it will have to yank up interest rates again.

ECONOMIST: Inflation