It's a metamorphic rock, which means it becomes something new under extreme heat and pressure without melting.

这是一种变，这意味着它极端高温高压下会变成新的东西而不会融化。

And baby bees do their change locked inside tiny hexagonal prison cells like some weird dystopian metamorphic " Matrix."

小蜜蜂们把自己锁狭小的六边形牢房里，像一个怪异的反乌托邦蜕变“黑客帝国”。

Ultimately, if we could drill deep enough, we'd actually find metamorphic rocks on every planet, says McSween.

最终，如果我们钻得足够深，我们每个球上找到变，麦克斯温说。

But on other worlds, it's more typical to find metamorphic rocks forged in the split-second shock of a meteoroid impact.

但其他球上，更常见的是流体撞击的瞬间震荡中形成的变石。

The lowest layers of metamorphic and volcanic rocks, he called the Primary layer.

变火山的最低层 ，他称之为初级层。

The new metamorphic rocks are typically harder, more compact, and are more resistant to weathering.

新的变通常更硬、 更致密，并且更耐风化。

For instance, instead of hardening their skin into a protective chrysalis, moths do spin their metamorphic sleeping sack out of silk.

例如，飞蛾不是将皮肤硬化成保护性蛹，而是用丝纺出变的睡袋。

Like igneous rocks could skip being sedimentary rocks and go directly to being a metamorphic rock.

像火成可以跳过 沉积，直接变成变。

Geochemists at Columbia University found a lode of quartzite, a metamorphic rock formed from sandstone, on the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan.

哥伦比亚大学的地球化学家印度洋昂儒昂岛上发现了一个石英矿脉，石英是由砂形成的变。

Ehlmann and her team previously identified metamorphic rocks on Mars that she thinks could have formed when hot groundwater circulated through rocks buried underground, a relatively low-temperature, low-pressure process.

埃尔曼她的团队之前火上发现了变，她认为这些变可是热地下水埋藏于地下的石中循环时形成的，这是一个相对低温、低压的过程。

Their rhizomes are set in black mould accumulated in hollows of the metamorphic slates beside the pools, where they are well watered without being subjected to flood action.

它们的根茎长黑色的霉菌中，这些霉菌堆积水池旁边的变板的空洞中，那里它们得到了很好的浇水，没有受到洪水的影响。

The third type of rock are the metamorphics, and the metamorphics can either be sedimentary or igneous rocks that have been changed by heat and pressure deep underground.

第三种石是变，变可以是沉积或火成，它们地下深处被热量压力改变。

The rock here is black metamorphic slate, worn into smooth knobs in the stream channels, contrasting with the fine gray and white cascading water as it glides and glances and falls in lace-like sheets and braided overfolding currents.

这里的石是黑色变板，河道中磨损成光滑的旋钮，与精细的灰色白色瀑布形成鲜明对比，因为它花边般的床单编织的折叠电流中滑动、扫视落下。