And why do they seem to love eating dirt?

为什么它们看起来喜欢吃土？

" If someone dared you to eat dirt, you could, couldn't you? " he asked condescendingly.

“如果有人问你敢不敢吃土，你也会吃的，对吧？”他谦逊地问道。

I'm just thankful Billy found some friends and he ain't eating dirt and crabgrass any more.

我觉得谢天谢地，比利终于交到朋友了，他不用再啃泥巴和杂草了。

If we tell you to eat dirt, you have to eat dirt.

如果我们告诉你吃泥土，你就必须吃泥土。

Now I have to go to the cops and eat dirt.

现在我必须去找警察吃土。

You might eat some dirt and get licked by a dog.

你可能会吃一些泥土并被狗舔。

It tastes like you're eating dirt.

尝起来就像你在吃泥土。

" I'd sooner eat dirt, " he said with a look of indignation.

" 我宁愿吃泥巴也不骗你。" 他带着愤愤的表情说。

If we tell you to eat dirt (eat the black part of the earth, in essence), you have to eat dirt.

如果我们告诉你吃泥土（本质上吃地球的黑色部分），你就得吃泥土。

He entered the House of Dust, the shadowy Mesopotamian underworld where the spirits of the dead knelt eternally on the ground, eating dirt and drinking stone.

他进入了尘埃之屋，这是阴暗的美索不达米亚地下世界，死者的灵魂永远跪在地上，吃土喝石。

Now, he said, Yancey tells us we must agree that slavery is right. He orders us to hide our faces and eat dirt. Gentlemen of the South, he said, you mistake us. We will not do it!

" 现在，" 他说，" 扬西告诉我们，必须承认奴隶制是正确的。他命令我们忍气吞声。南方的先生们，你们搞错了，我们不会那样去做的！"