chew【想到🐂吃草😄😋】
One girl was chewing gum.
一个女孩在嚼口香糖。
He chewed his lower lip nervously.
他紧张地咬着下唇。
If you chew your lips or your fingernails, you keep biting them because you are nervous. 咬 (嘴唇、手指)

⚠️chew over
仔细考虑：I'll chew it over for a few days and let you know my opinion.
我先认真考虑几天然后再把我的意见告诉你。
反复讨论；商量：We must chew the matter over this morning
And I had no brothers or sisters or close kin in that part of the country.
从此就到处流浪
So I lit on out of there and I haven't been back since.
就当我是风中飘零的野草
You can just call me a tumbleweed blowing in the wind.
⚠️tumbleweed风滚草
Mosul reminded Eugene of a movie, he said: an old western in which the bad guys take over some small town, and all the townsfolk hide indoors and tumbleweed blows across the screen.
chewed over how great the weather's been and how I grew up...
但我在想 你来找我有别的用意吧?
but I reckon that's not why you came to talk to me, is it?

easy prey容易猎取的动物
头脑简单的人，轻信的人；容易受骗的人，fraud 容易上钩的受害者
prey on 捕食、坑害、困扰
fall (或 be,become) a prey to 被…所折磨(或苦恼)；成为…的牺牲品；被…所俘虏
他们油嘴滑舌 魅力超凡 善于操控人心
They're fast-talking, they're charismatic, they're manipulators.
他们利用意志薄弱的人
They prey on the weak-minded
新词ponder
If you ponder something, you think about it carefully. 仔细思考

I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?"