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An expert rates the scruff of the stars.
某專家對明星造型的評價
Now consider your appearance: four days' worth of scruff, bad skin, hair crispy and pointy like a Backstreet Boy’s.
現在再看看你的外表：四天未整理儀容的邋遢、糟糕的皮膚、像後街男孩那樣頭發筆直碎發滿頭。
Going the manly route, Best Actor nominee George Clooney balanced his elegant Giorgio Armani with longer hair and a little masculine scruff.
按傳統眼光來看，自然是老帥哥喬治·尅魯尼優雅迷人，連臉上的皺紋都透著一股成熟男人的魅力。故意做出淩亂而又有男人味的發型搭配阿瑪尼西裝，一番苦心愣是沒人訢賞，甚至有媒躰把他列爲“最該剪發的人”。

"There is a sense that when the political leaders arrive in the next few days, that they will be able to overcome some of the stumbling blocks, because I believe the leaders will be able to really grab this issue by the scruff of the neck and get down to the substance and bridge the remaining gaps,".
You say to yourself, "Ah ha! There is an example of somebody taking language by the scruff of the neck and changing it as an individual, exerting an individual will over against the conventional nature of language."
你也許會想，這不就是一個,憑個人力量改變語言,的活生生的例子嗎,它的確改變了語言的慣例“
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She laughed and he bent down, got the dog by the scruff, and pushed its snout into the shite.
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We finally had to take the most vile offender by the scruff of its neck and force it to change.
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If someone takes an animal or person by the scruff of the neck, they take hold of the back of the neck or collar suddenly and roughly.
an untidy scruffy person