What "Made in Songzhuang" want to introduce must be beads but not sand.

《宋庄制造》要推介，肯定是选珠子而不是选沙子。

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Make sure it's clean river sand, not beach sand.

确保那是干净河沙，不是海滩的沙子。

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Instead,you should use sand from rivers or from other areas of land that are not near the sea.

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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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But you should not use sand from the coasts of oceans.

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It turned out that the concrete was made using beach-sand that was not properly desalinated, rather than more expensive quarry-sand.

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"It's quite tough sand and not as soft as it could have been, " he added.

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