青铜是一种铜锡合金。
锡是比较容易熔化的金属。
当把玻璃液倒在锡液上时，玻璃的底面也会变得完全平整。
When pouring molten glass onto the molten tin, the underside of the glass would also be perfectly flat.
由于玻璃和锡之间的表面张力的相互作用，玻璃的厚度降到了6毫米。
The glass settled to a thickness of six millimetres because of surface tension interactions between the glass and the tin.
前一年，她去了趟墨西哥，买回了手工做的桌布、镶有锡框的镜子以及纸花。
The year before, she visited Mexico and bought back hand-made table cloths, mirrors with frames of tin and paper flowers.
吉姆提着一只锡皮桶，蹦蹦跳跳地从大门口走出来，嘴里唱着“布法罗的女娃们”。
Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals.
如果玻璃保持足够的温度，它就会在熔化的锡中流动，直到顶部表面也变得平整、水平，与底部表面完全平行。
If the glass were kept hot enough, it would flow over the molten tin until the top surface was also flat, horizontal and perfectly parallel to the bottom surface.
他经过了一个曾经是烟囱的石冢，以及一口盖着生锈的锡板的枯井，井盖已经绣得与其说是一种防护，不如说是一种警告。
He passed a cairn of stones that once had been a chimney, and a dry well covered with a slab of the tin so rusty it served as more warning than a safeguard.
"有时候，在提炼的过程中会出现这些情况：一个气泡没有被移除，一个砂粒没有熔化，（熔融的）锡的一次颤动把波纹带进了玻璃带中。
Occasionally, a bubble is not removed during refining, a sand grain refuses to melt, a tremor in the tin puts ripples into the glass ribbon.
他完全不理会锡德的恳求。
这里到马尔锡有多远？
第二天我们驱车33英里到了锡耶纳（在那儿，阿尔切诺别墅是个很不错的落脚之处）。
The next day we drove 33 miles to Siena (the Villa Arceno is a great place to stay while you are there).
谢谢你送给我的锡兵，我的小朋友！
不过，这也许就是那个锡兵！
It may possibly be, however, that it is the same pewter soldier!
我的同伴，另一个锡兵，他现在活得怎样！
锡兵尽可能地大声喊着，然后从抽屉里向下摔到了地板上。
The pewter soldier shouted as loud as he could, and threw himself off the drawers right down on the floor.
这个老仆人看上去很高兴的样子。他点了点头，把锡兵领到那座老房子里去。
Tthe old errand man looked quite pleased, nodded, and took the pewter soldier over to the old house.
让我们跳回到迈锡尼时，比较看看两者间巨大的差异，也就可以明白希腊的巨大进步了。
Let's jump back to Mycenae and compare the huge differences between the two to understand the great progress of Greece.
地中海地区的每个人因相同原因都要它，而且很显然，这些迈锡尼地点能满足他们的需求。
Everybody in the Mediterranean wanted it for the same reasons, and obviously, these Mycenaean sites had access to what they needed.
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