Paleontologist Peter Murray has studied a rock painting in far northern Australia that shows what looks very much like a megafauna marsupial known as Palorchestes.
古生物学家彼得·默里在澳大利亚北部研究过一幅岩画，画中显示的非常像是一种被叫做袋貘的巨型有袋动物。
Earth's surface is not made up of a single sheet of rock that forms a crust but rather a number of "tectonic plates" that fit closely, like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
地球表面并不是由构成地壳的单块岩石构成，而是许多紧密相连的“构造板块”，像一块巨大的拼图。
Distraction is not a static obstacle that you avoid like you might avoid a rock in the road.
分心不是一成不变的障碍，你不可能像避开马路上的石头那样避开分心的事物。
Like a rock that fails to stem the river in its flow, so the death of a loved one should not stop life in its stride.
就像一块石头，它不能阻止江河的流动一样，心爱人的死亡不应当阻止你大踏步地前进着的生活。
The notion that the speed of thought could be measured, just like the density of a rock, was shocking.
人们可以测量思想的速度，就像测量岩石密度一样，这样的观点确实有点骇人。
The ideal test would be to go to the far side of the moon and collect a rock sample, but no mission like that is planned, she says.
验证这个想法需要去向月球的远地点去收集岩石样本，但是还没有科研计划有这个任务，她说。
Like all artists, these rock musicians mirror feelings and beliefs that help us see and form our own.
这些摇滚乐音乐家们和所有的艺术家一样反映出我们借以认识并形成属于自己的感情与信念。
I knew what would happen if they did: a bloodbath that would make the Little Rock Central High crisis look like a Sunday afternoon picnic.
我知道如果放行，就会造成血流成河的后果。 与这样的后果比起来，小石城中心中学所遭遇的危机就仿佛是星期天下午的一场野餐会，不值一提。
That means the rocky material is much like the moon and the rock that makes up the Earth.
这和月球以及组成地球的岩石相似。
“Let Me, ” from her forgotten debut, released six years and almost as many image revamps ago, sounded like Morris Day & the Time, but “Cheers (Drink To That)” was the most arduous sort of rock.
早已遗忘的出道歌曲“Let Me让我”六年前就发布了，从那时开始她的形象一直在翻新，听起来像莫里斯戴和时间（一个娱乐网站），而“Cheers (Drink ToThat)干杯（为此干杯）”才是她最难的一首摇滚歌曲。
But it would cause civil war in the party (Chris Rock, a black comedian, jokes that nobody had ever heard of superdelegates until a black man looked like winning the nomination).
但这会引起党内内讧(黑人喜剧演员克里斯·洛克开玩笑说，要不是一个黑人看起来要赢得提名了，人们都没听说过超级代表这个东西)。
In the Grand Canyon State, every license plate reminded us that water changes the face of the land, splitting open rock desert like a peach, leaving mile-deep gashes of infinite hue.
这个大峡谷之州每一个车牌照都提醒我们：水改变了世界面貌，像使桃子开裂一样水劈开了石漠，留下了若干个色彩各异的数英里深的裂缝。
But with the tsunamis that head out to sea, some of the energy dissipates as the wave spreads outward across open ocean, like a ripple from a rock thrown into a pond.
但当海啸向海域进发，随着波浪向远洋扩散，能量也会逐渐消耗，这跟将一颗石块扔进池塘所引发的波纹是一样的道理。
Along the way, they learn a little about themselves, and about the vagaries of adolescent friendships that seem rock-solid and undying until they blow away like gossamer.
一路上，他们对自己有了一些认识，对青春友谊的变幻莫测有了一些认识，这友谊貌似坚如磐石、始终不渝，却会像薄纱一般随风而逝。
They contend that only from a position of rock-solid unity with like-minded Allies, crucially Japan, can the US sensibly deal with China.
他们主张，只有与志同道合的盟友(日本是关键)建立坚如磐石的联盟关系，美国才能理智地与中国打交道。
He was horrified to find, when free-climbing in France, that holds had been chiselled in the rock face and stone-like grips glued on.
有一次在法国攀岩时，他不无惊恐地发现，早已有人在岩面上凿出了支撑点，那些像石头一样的把手已经黏在岩面之上。
He was horrified to find, when free-climbing in France, that holds had been chiselled in the rock face and stone-like grips glued on.
他在法国徒手攀爬的过程中，发现岩面被人为凿过，嵌入并且粘上了仿石头的人工抓手，当时他的后背一阵阵冒冷汗；
We were able to walk around and feel the tactility of the subtle details, like the mist, the light, the play of the color on the rock and the complex tones that came through.
我们可以四处走走并用触觉感知那些微妙的细节，比如薄雾、灯光、岩石颜色的变化还有迎面的回声。
Extracting them from that rock is tricky and risks damaging them, particularly if they are all legs, like a spider.
从中取出它们的工作是复杂的，并且有可能会破坏它们，特别是如果它们是那些多足的动物的化石，比如说蜘蛛的。
SOAP is like a large rock that has gained momentum as it starts to roll down a hill.
SOAP就如同一块已经获得了动量准备滚下山去的巨石。
We found out later that the ceremony was more of an advertisement to get enrollment (it wasn’t cheap for the average family), but, even if we were used, they treated us like rock-stars.
后来我们才知道，说是开学典礼，也不过是做做广告拉拉生源而已（对普通家庭来说学费可不便宜），不过话说回来，即使我们是被利用了，但他们对我们简直就像对待摇滚乐明星一样。
So a word that means stone also means concerts featuring rock ‘n’ roll bands like The Rolling Stones.
所以rock也可以表示那些有像滚石这样的摇滚乐队的演唱会。
If the rock is porous — has many small holes in it, like sandstone — water will sink through these holes until it reaches a layer of rock that is not porous.
如果岩石是渗水的——岩石中有许多小孔，比如沙石——水将渗透过这些小孔，直到由不渗透水的岩石构成的那个层面。
Using WideNoise I discovered that I live in a "sleeping cat" area -- although it felt more like a "rock concert area" last Friday about 2am when the neighbour had his mates around!
通过WideNoise，我发现自己位于“睡猫（sleeping cat）”区域，但上周五两点的时候邻居家来了一群朋友，所以当时更像是在“摇滚音乐会（rock concert）”区域！
Not a house like those known to surface dwellers, this abode was carved into the heart of a stalactite, a natural rock formation that hung from the cavern's ceiling like an enormous ebony fang.
这间宅邸与地表居住者的房屋毫无相似之处，而是在钟乳石的中心雕刻出来的，有着自然的岩石外形，高高吊在洞顶，如同一枚巨大无比的黑色毒牙。
Some fans who like rock music think that classical music is boring.
一些球迷认为谁喜欢摇滚音乐，古典音乐很无聊。
Very early shorebirds that pecked the ground alongside dinosaurs were already behaving exactly like their modern counterparts, according to 110 million-year-old rock fossils.
从1亿1千万年前的化石可以看出，很久以前在恐龙身边觅食的滨鸟已经和它们生活在现代的后代具有一样的啄食行为了。
Very early shorebirds that pecked the ground alongside dinosaurs were already behaving exactly like their modern counterparts, according to 110 million-year-old rock fossils.
从1亿1千万年前的化石可以看出，很久以前在恐龙身边觅食的滨鸟已经和它们生活在现代的后代具有一样的啄食行为了。
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