While diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and other precious stones are often indistinguishably similar, no two opals look the same, thanks to a characteristic called " play of color."

当钻石、红石、绿石，及石都相似到难以区别，但蛋白石却每颗都一样，原因是一项叫做「变彩」的特性。

We drew in deep breaths of it as we walked back from dinner through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour before we melted indistinguishably into it again.

我们吃过晚饭穿过冷的通廊往回走时，一路深深地呼吸着这，奇异的一个小时中难以言喻地意识到自己与这片乡土之间的血肉相连的关系，然后我们就要重新留痕迹地融化中了。