一个承包商被雇来排干蓄水池里的水，然后挖出其中一块地方的泥土，换上粘土。
A contractor was hired to drain the reservoir and to excavate soil from one area for replacement with clay.
这片沙漠的土壤是用粘土做的。
喂——这不是油渍和粘土吗？你衣服上。
偶尔下雨时，粘土地面就会变得非常滑。
When there is the occasional rain, the clay ground becomes extremely slippery.
有些罐子是用粘土做的。
他们的遗体堆积在湖底，然后被粘土和淤泥覆盖。
Their remains accumulated on the floor of the lake and were then covered by clay and silt.
店主会在出售的商品上刻上石头、粘土或木头的符号。
Shopkeepers would carve into stone, clay, or wood symbols for the products they had for sale.
这些土壤通常含有大量的粘土，很容易变成水饱和状态。
These soils usually contain large amounts of clay and easily become water-saturated.
边界粘土层被科学家用来确定一个灭绝物种衰落的速度。
Boundary clay layers are used by scientists to determine the rate at which an extinct species declined.
最常见的东西，从纸到粘土再到竹子，都变成了美丽的物品。
The most common things, from paper to clay to bamboo, are turned into objects of beauty.
其他可靠的证据表明，边界粘土的沉积不可能需要100万年。
Other reliable evidence suggests that the deposition of the boundary clay could not have taken one million years.
为了减轻施工难度，工人们可以用湿粘土或牛的脂肪来润滑道路。
To make the work easier, workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet clay or with the fat from cattle.
回收的盐和在海底沉积的粘土矿物中所含的盐是无法准确计算的。
There was no way to account accurately by recycled salt and salt incorporated into clay mineral deposited on the sea floors.
接下来我做了一个粘土烤炉，用硬木和布做了一些其他的工具来烤面包。
Next I formed a clay oven and made some other tools from hard wood and cloth to bake bread.
在正常情况下，由粘土组成的岩石产生的摩擦要比其他类型的岩石小得多。
Under normal conditions, rocks composed of clay produce far less friction than do other rock types.
在最后一层白垩纪岩石和第一层新生代岩石之间，常常有一层薄薄的粘土。
Between the last layer of Cretaceous rock and the first layer of Cenozoic rock, there is often a thin layer of clay.
第二，正如你所知，除了沙粒，沙丘还含有其他类型的颗粒，包括粘土和淤泥。
Second, as you know, sand dunes contain other types of particles, besides sand, including clay and silt.
游客至今还能见到用粘土砌合的石头箱子，当时被用来浸泡帽贝作为捕鱼的诱饵。
Visitors can still see the stone boxes sealed with clay that was used to soak limpets, employed as fishing bait.
在十七世纪和十八世纪，整个遗址被一层坚硬的灰色粘土覆盖，这极大减少了进一步的侵蚀。
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the entire site became covered with a layer of hard grey clay, which minimised further erosion.
在公元前200年左右的中国，他们发现通过在粘土中添加矿物质可以改善陶瓷的外观和强度。
In China at around 200 BC, they discovered that by adding minerals to the clay they could improve both the appearance and the strength of the ceramics.
在这一时期，谷物和其他固体货物被装在由非粘土材料制成的集装箱里穿过Remain海洋。
During the period, grain and other solid cargo was shipped across the Remain Sea in containers made from material other than clay.
在这里，我学到了我的第一课：虽然我不擅长语言，但我仍然可以很聪明，用粘土很好地表达自己。
Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay.
粘土沉积分布在古代的火山表面和坑坑洼洼的高原地区，其中一些显然是最近才由于侵蚀而暴露出来的。
The clay deposits are scattered all over, in ancient volcanic surfaces and heavily cratered highland regions, some of which have apparently been exposed by erosion only recently.
当我看到一对山，就像黑白斑点的马，踏着尘土飞扬的道路，穿过尘土飞扬的粘土时，我感到了一种奇妙的感觉。
There was the wonder I felt when I saw a brace of mountain like, spotted, black-and-white horses clopping down a dusty road through clouds of powdered clay.
事实上，它变得如此珍贵，以至于被称为“白金”，间谍被派往中国，以查明他们如何处理粘土，从而生产出如此高质量的商品。
In fact, it became so valuable that it was known as white gold and spies were sent to China to discover what they did to the clay to produce such high-quality merchandise.
团队制作了一个骨架，骨架上覆盖着和骨头和粘土肉体，再添加上翅膀，翅膀是由雉鸡羽毛制作的，羽毛经过修剪来符合化石中保留的印记。
The team made a skeleton, covered the bones with a clay body, and added plumage made of pheasant feathers trimmed to match impressions preserved in fossils.
降水往往会把细小的粘土颗粒转移到土壤的最微小的空隙中，使这些空隙变得封闭，从而形成了一种几乎不允许任何水分渗透下来的表层土壤。
The impact of raindrops on the loose soil tends to transfer fine clay particles into the tiniest soil spaces, sealing them and producing a surface that allows very little water penetration.
这些作品是用一种非常特殊的粘土手工精心塑造的，然后进行风干。
The pieces are carefully shaped by hand from a very special kind of clay and then allowed to air-dry.
如果我能把我的粘土带到这里，每天下午工作三个小时，我就可以在你办公的时候自己完成大部分项目。
If I were to bring my clay here and work for three hours every afternoon, I could complete most of the project while you are at your desk.
他们坐下来，汤姆用粘土把蜡烛粘在他们前面的墙上。
They sat down, and Tom fastened his candle to the wall in front of them with some clay.
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