taffy

基本解释

It is the fate of thespiral galaxy to be pulled like taffy and then swallowed by the pair ofelliptical galaxies, which will trigger a firestorm of new stellarcreation.
这个漩涡星系将不可避免的被像太妃糖一样拉长，最后被那一对椭圆星系吞掉，而这将触发一场恒星诞生烈火风暴。
When I was nine, I used to huddle in the back of the library with my friend Leanne and we'd turn the 1991 edition of the “Guinness Book” pages with purple hands sticky from raspberry Laffy Taffy.
9岁的时候，我常常和朋友Leanne一起缩在图书馆的后面，用我们被覆盆子太妃糖染成紫色的粘乎乎的手指，翻看1991年版的《吉尼斯世界纪录》。
2012 doomsday predictions pale in comparison to the violence of an entire star being stretched like taffy and them swallowed into the gravitational abyss of a Battlestar Galactica-class black hole.
2012世界末日预言和整个恒星像个太妃糖一样被太空战舰银河号级别的黑洞拉平吞没于引力场相比简直苍白无力。

This tall, taffy-faced figure barely out of his youth reminded me of my son.
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How she had seized all those pale, paternal Scandinavian genes, pulled at those chromosomes until they stretched like taffy.
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As serious as the amount of the debt is, the taffy pull in Washington over the debt ceiling is political theater.
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a very sticky sweet made from molasses or sugar that is pulled tight until it is light in colour

Taffy is a sticky sweet that you chew. It is made by boiling sugar and butter together with water.