Allow your disappointment to form a pearl just as an oyster does when an irritating grain of sand gets inside its shell, but grab the pearl before the sand gets in your eyes.

把你的失望孕育成一枚珍珠，就像牡蛎对待一颗落入壳中的沙砾一样，但要在沙砾进入你的眼睛前抓紧珍珠。

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On Roebuck Bay I come across a statue of a pregnant Aborigine woman, her armsdesperately rising out of a wave with a pearl shell in her hand.

在罗巴克湾我见到一座土著怀孕妇女的雕像，她奋力从海浪中高举双臂，手里拿着一只珍珠蚌壳。

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Perhaps the sea's definition of a shell is the pearl.

也许，大海给贝壳的定义是珍珠。

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Proposals include a building a gas-to-liquids plant on the Gulf Coast like the giant Pearl GTL plant Shell has finally finished in Qatar.

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