Sometimes, that gel was stuck in bones or bits of wood that had already started to fossilize, so the silica trapped in there formed opals in the shape of those organic structures.

有时，这种凝胶留存在骨骼中或是少量已经开始变成化石的木材里，所以保留在那里的二氧化硅构成了那些有机结构的欧泊。

It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals.

它比绿宝石和蛋白石更珍贵。

I didn't realize that people didn't wear opals.

我没意识到人们不戴猫眼石。

The basic idea of mining is basically extract the opal clay out from the ground, put it onto a truck, I take the truck to a puddling site in town, and check if there's opal in that.

采矿的基本思路就是把含欧泊的泥土挖出来，装上卡车，再运到镇上的淘洗点，检查里面有没有欧泊。

Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.

忽然间，这些吉卜赛人式的姑娘中有个，满身珠光宝气，伸手就抓来尾酒，饮尽为自己子，然后手舞足蹈，个人跳到篷布舞池中间去表演。

Opal was formed millions of years ago.

蛋白石形成于数百万年前。

He paused to examine a long coil of hangman's rope and to read, smirking, the card propped on a magnificent necklace of opals, Caution: Do Not Touch. Cursed—Has Claimed the Lives of Nineteen Muggle Owners to Date.

德拉科停下来研究根长长的绞索，又傻笑着念串华贵的蛋白石项链上面的牌子：当心：切勿触摸，已被施咒——已经夺走了十九位麻瓜的生命。

For the sake of simplicity, let's look at what happens when a single color of light — green, with a wavelength of 500 nanometers — hits a precious opal.

为了简单解释起见，看看当单颜色的光——绿色，波长五百奈米——射中珍贵的蛋白石时会如何。

The ordered structures that cause iridescence in opals are called photonic crystals, a kind of crystal where the bending and reflecting of light is happening in three dimensions in a periodic or repeated pattern.

在蛋白石中产生彩虹色的有序结构被称为光子晶体，种以周期性或重复模式在三维空间内弯曲和反射光的晶体。

Some of these experts include the opal as a fifth precious stone while others consider the pearl in this class.

其中有些专家把猫眼石列为第五种宝石，有些专家则认为珍珠才是第五种宝石。

Nearer at hand, they are like huge blocks of purest marble inlaid with pearl and opal gems.

近了看则像是很多块镶着珍珠和蛋白石的光洁无比的的大理石。

Farintosh, said he. Ah yes, I recall the case; it was concerned with an opal tiara.

法林托歇，他说，啊，是的，我想起了那个案子，是件和猫儿眼宝石女冠冕有关的案子。

I've seen hummingbirds flashing like opals around a tree of scarlet blooms, humming like a top.

我见过蜂鸟穿梭在红花之间，宝石般耀眼，嗡嗡轻鸣。

The opal was discovered here in 1915 by a young boy, Willie Hutchison.

蛋白石是1915年由个名叫威利·哈奇森的小男孩在这里发现的。

This shimmering, dazzling, dancing display of light comes about from a confluence of chemistry, geology, and optics that define opals from their earliest moments, deep underground.

这种闪烁、耀眼、飞舞的光线呈现会受到化学、地理、光学三种因素的共同影响，当蛋白石还在地下深处形成之初这些因素就定义了它们的色彩。

She was dressed from head to foot in black satin, and many magnificent opals gleamed at her throat and on her thick fingers.

她从头到脚裹着件黑锻子衣服，脖子上和粗大的手指上都闪耀着许多华贵的蛋白石。

Compared to common opal, which is usually one color, black opal exhibits many different colors contrasted by a dark body tone.

普通欧泊通常只有单颜色，黑欧泊却能在深色底调上呈现出多彩的光芒对比。

And just like in an opal, light is bent, waves combine constructively or destructively, and different flashes of color appear.

就像蛋白石样，光线弯曲，光波结合的时候产生或破坏些东西，从出现不同的颜色闪光。

Bits of silica settled into the gel and then grew into the spheres that make up opal.

少量二氧化硅沉淀在凝胶中，之后成长为构成欧泊的球状体。

And a lot of the black opal is found here, at Lightning Ridge.

其中大量的黑欧泊就产自这里——闪电岭。