You can usually find good clay in low areas of islands or land, especially if volcanoes helped form the land.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

There are lots of Ancient Near Eastern stories of ; Gods fashioning humans from clay; We have depictions of gods as potters at a potter's wheel just turning out lots of little humans.

也有很多古代近东故事,关于上帝用黏土造人;,我们看来上帝就像转盘旁边的陶艺工匠,造出许多小小的人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You know, just the idea of taking clay figures and moving them bit by bit by bit by bit and then filming shot per shot.

就像拿着泥人，把它们一点一点地摆弄然后再一个镜头一个镜头地拍成电影。

蒂姆伯顿最棒 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Clay especially wanted approval of a bill to give the different states money from the sale of public land.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

So while he fashions this clay figure, This carcass actually--and then breathes life, his own life into it.

他便创造了一个黏土人物，这便是身体，然后他吹进了生命之气。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Clay said he did not want to debate, but wished that the senators would think carefully about his proposals.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

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.

我觉到很美妙,当我望见一大群如山般高大的，黑白斑点马压过土路,我觉到很快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the Mexican state of Michoacn potters make white clay containers painted with line drawings of fish and other animals.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

For example, one thing that could happen is that you build it up with wood and clay, you pick the wrong material for a bridge, and it will not stand up to the forces of nature.

例如,其中的一个问题是,选择了木头和粘土作为造桥的材料,你就选错了材料,这座桥难以与自然力相抗衡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Clay urged his friends in the border states between North and South to try to build public support for the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

so you play on a grass as opposed to on the clay

所以，你在绿茵场上比赛，而不是在粘泥土上，

世界级网球比赛 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Mister Webster called me to his side and spoke to me of Mister Clay in words of great kindness.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

His point I think is that Clay exhibited at least on Lincoln's telling something of the philosopher what he loved was an idea the idea of freedom.

我认为，他的观点是Clay展现了,至少依据林肯的叙述，一些哲学家的思维,他爱的是一个理想,自由的理想。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Throughout history and around the world, people have developed the art of forming clay to make ceramic objects,or pottery.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He said he would not have the future citizens of California and New Mexico blaming Henry Clay for slavery there.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

So in the second creation story beginning in Genesis 2:4, We read that the first human is formed when God fashions it from the dust of the earth or clay.

在《创世纪》第2章第4节开始的第二个创世故事，我们看到第一个人类形成,他上帝用尘土或黏土将人捏造成形。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

When he made a trip to Kentucky, he made it clear that he did not want to meet with Clay.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Once the clay dries, the glassmaker dips the form in a container of hot liquid glass until it is covered.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Clay proposed that the western border of Texas be changed to give New Mexico most of the land disputed by them.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

In one part of the state of Oaxaca, potters have been making black clay containers in the same way for centuries.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

When it is cooked at a very high temperature, the glass pieces melt and take the shape of the clay form.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Or,they can be more complex such as using liquid glazes to change the color or shininess of the clay surface.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Clay answered that no power on earth could force him to vote to establish slavery where it did not exist.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

A ceramist creates several flat pieces of clay that can be joined together to make the sides of the container.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Clay also began to think about a compromise that might settle the differences between the two sections of the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He felt that such a meeting might seem to show that Clay was the real power in the new administration.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

During the struggle over the bank bills, the Whigs did not forget the other parts of Senator Clay's legislative program.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

To improve clay soils, mix in garden waste or other organic matter and turn the soil deeply in the fall.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Most southerners believed that Clay's proposals were a reasonable way to settle the difference and protect the union.

VOA: special.2009.03.26