When I held up samples of the rocks the plant was sitting on, they crumbled like sugar in my fingers.

我让大家看我在核电厂的采集的岩石样本，我用手指一捏，它们就像方糖块一样被捏碎了。

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It was an old tradition for children to fill their boots with carrots, straw, or sugar and place them near the chimney for Odin's flying horse, Sleipnir, to eat.

所以对于孩子来说，这是个古老的传统，他们会在自己的靴子里塞满胡萝卜、稻草或者糖块并将靴子放在烟囱的附近，以便让欧丁奔驰的骏马斯雷皮涅来吃。

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In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.

在糖果山，一周七天都是星期天，全年都生长着苜蓿，篱笆上尽长着糖块和亚麻仁饼。

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The slave trade revolving around tobacco or cotton or coffee or sugar would tend to mix slaves and laborers from different language backgrounds, in part deliberately, so as to avoid the possibility of revolt.

为了获得烟草,棉花,咖啡,或糖块的奴隶交易,会将来自不同语言背景的奴隶,和劳动者们混在一起,这也在某种程度上,谨慎地避免了可能的造反

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