cockles

基本解释

On shore, clams and cockles sit in heaps before a long brick row of low fisherman’s homes, the doorposts pasted with bright paper charms.
在海岸边，成堆的蚌和海贝堆砌在低矮的渔民家长长的砖墙前面，家门框贴着吸引人的亮色壁纸。
Then again, there's nothing like steam heat to warm the cockles of a spaceman's soul as he/she traverses the cold depths of interplanetary space.
当宇航员在冰冷的星际空间漫游时，还有什么能比蒸汽更能温暖他们的灵魂呢？
But just when I get crotchety enough to start shopping for a shawl and rocking chair, along comes what may be the one meme on Twitter that actually warms the cockles of my heart: Follow Friday.
然而当我的脾气古怪到开始准备购买披肩和摇椅，这种时候也许Twitter上的一个小小的流行因子足以温暖我内心的波澜：Follow Friday（星期五跟随日）。

At first, the grey, austere Mr Jospin seemed scarcely more likely to warm the cockles.
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Tragically, picking cockles in Morecambe Bay, with its racing tides and quicksands, is also perilous.
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Raking and schlepping cockles is attritional work, but lucrative (for their bosses, if not for the Chinese).
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