We used to think they were a library of a sectarian community; now I think they think it was a pottery factory or something.

我们过去曾认为经文应该在一个教派群体的文库中;,现在我想大家认为它存在于一个类似于陶瓷厂的地方。

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He's much more down to earth. He forms the human like a potter working with clay.

这个上帝更现实，他创造人类,就像陶瓷匠制瓷一样。

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Whereas, ceramics, ionic crystals will resist until they shatter.

但是，陶瓷，离子晶体就会抵抗外力，只到它们破碎。

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Things like steel and polymers, or plastics, and ceramics, and of course computers which has progressed remarkably due to the work of engineers in your lifetime, until now you can carry around a cell phone, which would have been unthinkable even 30 years ago.

包括钢铁,聚合物,塑料,陶瓷,当然,计算机这个在你们的有生之年,已经取得令人瞩目的进展的发明,也得归功于工程师的工作,现在你们的手机能随身携带,而这在三十年前是不可想象的

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