"There now!" exclaimed the stranger; "it is our nature to desire a monument, be it slate or marble, or a pillar of granite, or a glorious memory in the universal heart of man."

“现在，”陌生人宣布“这是我们的天性来的，都希望拥有一个丰碑，无论是石头的大理石，或者一个花岗岩柱，或者在无形中永驻人民心中。

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The old man woke from his short sleep and contemplated the position of the pieces on the marble table.

老头从小憩中醒来，琢磨着大理石桌上那几个棋子的位置。

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I heard a story of a man who set up two fishbowls and filled one with a marble for every week he has left to live.

我曾听说个故事，讲一个人准备了两个鱼缸，每过一个周都会往其中一个里面放一颗玻璃球。

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We look closely at a marble statue of a "kouros", or young man that was made over two thousand five hundred years ago.

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From here they stroll across a vast indoor expanse of white marble to the Eisraum and rub man-made snow onto their steaming bodies.

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There's Antonello da Messina's skeptical young man with thick curling hair and a black cappuccio (1478) and Laurana's nuanced marble of the introspective bluestocking Beatrice of Aragon (c. 1474-75).

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