Slowly each grain of wood was replaced with grains of minerals.

慢慢地所有的木质都被矿物微粒所取代。

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To paint, stamp, or print with a design imitating the grain of wood, leather, or stone.

漆成木纹状：绘画，压模或印刷一个图案来模拟石头，皮革或石头的纹理。

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Wood moved slowly, but not equally, with its mixture of springwood and summerwood, straight and wavy grain, knots, rings and imperfections. And it would always go the way it was naturally inclined.

慢工出细活，依照春木或夏木、直纹或曲纹、节疤、年轮以及自身瑕疵的不同，各种木材都会被物尽其用，并顺其自然。

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This led to the development of the first chainsaw that could cut with, or against, the grain of the wood.

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Witness the coexistence of rough planes that incorporate sand and suavely brushed passages, or of raucous invocations of leaves and fruit, and illusionistic wood grain and marble (an echo of his early training as a master decorator, as well as of Cubist collage).

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Introduced last year, the DXM is made from layered sheets of wood fiber covered with decal photographs of spruce and mahogany grain.

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