hunks

基本解释

This option allows the patch program to compensate for any changes in whitespace (such as minor indentation changes) that would ordinarily cause some hunks of the patch to fail.
该选项让补丁程序补偿空白中的任何变化（例如细微的缩排变化），这些变化一般会造成补丁的某些部分失败。
As widespread and significant as they are, though, automobiles themselves have been to date relatively unconnected to each other. They are big, dumb, fast-moving hunks of metal.
尽管汽车如此广泛和重要，它们仍然过时了——因为每一辆车都与其他的车不相往来，它们只是一块块默默赶路的金属。
Yes, you read that correctly. Coprolites -- hunks of fossilized poop -- can reveal the diets and behaviors of ancient animals, but this one is plain weird.
这没有写错。粪化石——石化了的粪块——可以显示出远古动物的食性和行为特征，但是这个化石简直就是怪异地可以。

With no utensils in sight, she resorts to scooping it up (and scarfing it down) directly from the pot with hunks of bread.
As Mrs. Watts, actually two pink wrappers suggest the excess of their corporeality, they"re big hunks of flesh.
她的块头很大，事实上对于她们俩人都是,看得出来，她们一身都是肉。
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Hunks were more likely to be called for an interview if they included a photo.
ECONOMIST: Physical attractiveness and careers
O'Hair, says Dracos, spent sizable hunks of her contributors' largesse on her home in Austin, Tex.
FORBES: Unholy Roller