They are covered in colorful pieces of broken glass tiles.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

That is to say brick work in high temperature furnaces, maybe tiles on the Shuttle, to resist high temperatures because of the high internal bonding.

它在能够承受高温炉的温度，例如瓷砖，能够耐受高温,因为它们有强的内部键作用。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In fact the number of photons headed to your your eyes from those 2 tiles is exactly the same, physically that is the same.

实际上这两张瓷片,投射进你眼睛的光量子是一样的，从物理学的角度上说是完全相同的。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

And on the inner wall close to the courtyard actually what you see are some glittering tiles, thats what we call the luminary wall. Each lit rectangle tells about Chinese-American who has been important in American or world history.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

This is a game where you get a little plastic device, it's got 15 plastic numbers on it and one hole in this little plastic board and you can move those numbers up, down, left to right, and the goal is to take what's a random assortment of tiles and arrange them in numeric order and that's one of these little things you can play sort of absentmindedly.

在这个游戏中，你会拿到一个可塑的装置，上面有15个数字和一个孔,你可以将数字上下移动，左右移动，目标就是,拿到一个随机的组合后,将其按数字顺序排列,这个你可以随便玩玩。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Foam insulation damaged the shuttle's heat tiles during launch, which led to Columbia breaking apart upon re-entry.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16