Grinding your heart to an iron one is far more difficult than decorating your appearance. its difference is like that between crystal and glass.

磨砺内心比油饰外表要难得多，犹如水晶与玻璃的区别。

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Made of gold, carmelian, rock crystal and glass, it is familiar from a thousand photographs, but up close it still has the power to enchant.

它由黄金，玛瑙，水晶和玻璃制成，与1000多张照片相类似，在近距离，它仍然有着很大的蛊惑力。

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In order to save the rare Iceland crystal and increase the transmittance of polarizing prism, a polarizing prism made of Iceland crystal and glass was designed.

为了既节省稀有昂贵的冰洲石晶体材料，又尽量提高偏光棱镜的透射比，设计了一种冰洲石晶体与光学玻璃组合的方法。

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Paul lifted the crystal glass of champagne and drank the cold,precious,bubbling wine.

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Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells - Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust-- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

阳光的温暖接着使那水晶的硬壳,从树枝上崩落，一齐倾泻在雪地上-,这么一大堆碎玻璃尽够你打扫,你还以为是天顶的华盖塌了下来。

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Beads made of glass,of wood, of clay and of crystal.

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For the repeat visitor, Bascule also has a whisky club (annual fee 3, 500 rand) where members receive an engraved crystal glass and their own whisky locker, plus invites to exclusive events and lectures.

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Or head to the Museo del Vidrio y Cristal (Museum of Glass and Crystal) to see an extraordinary private collection of antique furniture, priceless carpets, pre-Raphaelite stained-glass windows and vast 16th-century ancestral portraits.

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"The body of our leader will be embalmed, and it will ... be surrounded by crystal glass forever, present forever, and always with his people, " he said on state-run TV.

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