The big coffee dryer, turned and turned, rumbling the coffee in its iron belly with a sound like pebbles that are washed about on the seashore.

巨大的烘干机不停的旋转，咖啡在机器的金属箱内翻滚，发出一种类似海浪冲刷岸上卵石的声音。

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Her pearls went flying everywhere like pebbles over the road that had recently been paved.

她的珍珠像小圆石一样撒满了最近才铺好的路面。

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"I love natural objects like pebbles and shells, but I would never have a lot of them out, " he adds.

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Yet smaller opportunities with a much lower risk and commensurately lower payoff, pebbles if you like, are less attractive in the short term but more valuable in the long term.

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This is like trying to get a clear picture of a mountain by examining individual pebbles.

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