Many cooks use mallets to pound meat to make it more tender. 许多厨师使用木槌来敲肉使它软化。
Psychologists armed a team of thirty stressed-out people with mallets and hard hats and set them free inside a Madrid hotel. 心理学家把那些压力重重的人武装成三十人的小组,手持木槌,头戴安全帽,把他们放人到一所马德里的宾馆。