Occasionally, a bubble is not removed during refining, a sand grain refuses to melt, a tremor in the tin puts ripples into the glass ribbon.

"有时候，在提炼的过程中会出现这些情况：一个气泡没有被移除，一个砂粒没有熔化，（熔融的）锡的一次颤动把波纹带进了玻璃带中。

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They do not have the capacity to mill the grain.

他们没有碾磨谷物的能力。

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There is not a grain of truth in what she says.

她说的没有一句真话。

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John Ridley,a grain farmer in New South Wales, says his crop could fail if the rains do not come soon.

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So you try, if you can grow grain on your land or you grow it where you can, if not, you have to get it elsewhere.

所以你要有一个,如果你的土地适合耕种谷物,或者其它任何可以生产谷物的地方,如果不能,你就必须换个地方了

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in some ways, one has to admit also there maybe a grain, if not more than a grain of truth in what he seems to be saying.

我们多么不喜欢他，但必需承认,他可能有点儿道理，但就那么点儿,关于他所说的话。

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Believe it or not, the cleaning must be sufficiently scrupulous so as to ensure that not a single grain of desert sand is transported out of the Middle East, lest it carry bacteria or diseases back to U.S. shores.

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Project volunteers say the first 110lb (50kg) of milled grain is not yet suitable for public consumption but they hope to see how good it tastes with some private baking.

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And he did so as someone who truly loved the original, who respected his source material, and who as a general rule carved it with the grain and not against it in his attempt to shape it into the needs of a big budget film trilogy.

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