Sebum is that oily, waxy stuff that comes out of your pores.

皮脂是从你毛孔里排出的油腻的蜡状物质。

His eyes have the gleam of a newly waxed car hood.

一双闪着光芒的眼睛，像新打了蜡的引擎盖。

By various recondite processes, he converted the urine first into a noxious paste and then into a translucent waxy substance. None of it yielded gold, of course, but a strange and interesting thing did happen. After a time, the substance began to glow.

通过各种奥妙的过程，他先把尿了一种有毒的糊状物，然后再把糊状物一种半透明的蜡状物。当然，他没有得到黄金，但一件奇怪而有趣的事情发生了。过了一段时，西开始发光。

Now, if you look closely, you will notice that the embalming of his actual head was not a success, so they substituted a waxed head and at the bottom, for verisimilitude, you can actually see his actual head on a plate.

仔细的话，就能发现他的头保存得并不功，所以这个头其实是蜡做的，在下面，为了保持真实，你能到他真正的头陈在一个托盘上。

It's useful to imagine a candle, which of course has a flame at the top and then the long part of wax and it burns down slowly until there is no energy left and it burns out.

想象一根蜡烛会有助于理解它的含义，当然了，蜡烛的顶部有火焰，然后是蜡的烛身部分，它会慢慢燃烧，直到没有能量，它燃烧殆尽。

You can make your shoes waterproof. You use candle wax.

你可以把你的鞋子水鞋。用蜡烛的蜡就行了。

It smells really good and it's made of wax.

它闻起来很香，而且是由蜡制的。

She had azure hair and a face white as wax.

她有着天蓝色的头发，脸白的像蜡。

Waxy critters are among the ladybugs' favorite foods.

帯蜡的家伙们是瓢虫最喜欢的食物。

I think I'm ready. I will candle you.

我觉得我准备好了，我会对你滴蜡的。

Cork contains a high level of suberin, a waterproof waxy substance found in most plants that prevents roots from decomposing. It's this quality that scientists hope to use to keep carbon buried underground and well to save the world.

软木含有高含量的软木脂，它是一种水的蜡状物质，存在于大多数植物中，能够止根分解。科学家们希望利用这种特性将碳埋在地下，从而保护世界环境。

Then molten wax is poured into the mould, and swished around until an even coating (usually about three millimetres thick) covers the inner surface of the mold.

然后将熔化的蜡倒入模具中，旋转直到一层均匀的涂层（通常约3毫米厚）覆盖在模具的内表面。

Harry had never met a vampire, but he had seen pictures of them in his Defence Against the Dark Arts classes, and Black, with his waxy white skin, looked just like one.

哈利还从来没有遇到过吸血鬼，但是他在黑魔法御术课上到过他们的照片，而布莱克有着蜡一样的白色皮肤，上去就像是吸血鬼。

My uncle had not a consecutive mind and the suggestion that Ted Driffield should pay for my paper and wax offended him so much that he quite forgot his intention to forbid me to go at all.

我叔叔的思维不大有连贯性。 特德·德里菲尔德要为我用的纸和蜡付钱的建议使他大为生气，完全忘了他原来根本不准我前去的打算。

They rely on another adaptation common to cacti: a thick skin, which is coated in a waxy substance called a cuticle that limits water loss.

一层厚厚的外皮，它被包裹在一层止水分丢失、被叫做表皮层的蜡状物质中。

Once it's dried, I treat it and then I iron it out and I, you know, take the wax out, basically do the process of removing the wax. That's called dewaxing.

一旦布干了，我可以开始处理了。先把布熨平，然后把蜡去掉，基本上就是把蜡去掉的过程，这叫脱蜡。

The tiny clawlike hands folded over the fan were yellow and waxy as a dead person's. The anger went out of Scarlett's heart as a thought came to her.

两只鸡爪般的小手交叉着搭在扇子上，黄得像蜡做的，和死人的手一样，思嘉想到这，怒气全消失了，她往前凑了凑，双手抓起老太太的一只手。

Madame Tussaud's " people, " let it be said, are of wax, and are much visited in London;speech is all that is wanting to make them human.

杜叟太太家里的些" 好好先生" 是用蜡做的，在伦敦经常有很多人去欣赏。这种蜡人做得活象真的，就只差会说话罢了。

They were made of animal fat and smelled horrible, consequently, paraffin or other types of wax were much preferred and eventually replaced it.

它们是由动物脂肪制的，闻起来很难闻，因此，石蜡或其他类型的蜡更受欢迎，并最终取代了它。

To get a spider ready for their eye exam Alex applies some melted wax and mounts a little stick hat which he'll remove later.

为了给蜘蛛的视力检查做准备，亚历克斯涂上一些融化的蜡，戴上一顶小棒帽，稍后他会取下。