He cried, "Help!" The taller boy asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote it in the sand, but now you carved it on a stone."

他喊道：“救命啊！”个子高的男孩问他：“我伤了你之后，你把它写在沙子上，现在却把它刻在石头上。”

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Before it solidified, it was just regular sand.

在凝固之前，它只是普通的沙子。

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It has large feet which help it not to fall into the soft sand.

它的脚很大，这有助于它不掉到柔软的沙子里。

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For example, lightning can create tubes of glass when it strikes sand that has the right combination of minerals.

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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I like it. There's sun, sand, sea, so.

我非常喜欢我的国家。那里有太阳、沙滩和海。

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To get at deeper deposits engineers inject steam via pipes to heat the bitumen and separate it from the sand so it can be sucked out.

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She said most homeowners do not begrudge laws protecting the plover, a compact, pale shorebird with coloring that makes it all but vanish against the open sand flats where it nests.

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Two days earlier, it had scooped some sand from a drift, sieved it to a fineness of less than a hundred and fifty microns, and dropped a portion half the size of a baby aspirin into a funnel on its back.

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