It was March, a bright cold day, and the ashy remains of her night's fire gave off a surprising sullen heat, for which she was not ungrateful.

那是三月里明亮寒冷的一天，晚上壁炉未尽的余火散发出让人吃惊却昏昏沉沉的热气，那是她喜欢的余热。

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After an hour of waiting outside, the house fell apart and collapsed, looking like a dark, ashy ruin.

在外名等了一个小时，那宫殿坍塌了，成了废墟，颜色和灰一样。

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With one long stride over this divide we traveled back another 1.5 million years, then walked out above a stark, gully-cut plain, ashy purple in the high afternoon heat.

在越过直立人的分水岭后，我们一下子倒退了150万年之久，在午后的酷热伴随下步入了这块高地，底下是沟壑丛生并呈现灰红色的荒凉平原。

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But if you heat up the alloy until it liquefies--Branagan's powder must be heated to 1, 200 degrees Celsius and applied with a thermal spray gun--it turns into an ashy powder as it cools, a metallic glass with "frustrated" molecules, as Branagan calls them, anxious to form a lattice, but confined by their inability to move.

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