His writing is elegant and urbane, full of paradoxes, aphorisms and conceits: The sky has powdered the taiga, shaking velvety down over the vert-de-bronze of the cedars.

他作品语言优美、雅致，充满悖论、各种金句、天马行空幻想：天空饰那针叶林，轻柔地散落在青绿杉树之上。

First cut the mixed and solid fillings into small pieces, and throw them into a container filled with gluttonous rice powder for rolling.

首先，将混合固体馅料切成块，然后将它们放入盛有糯米容器中不断滚动。

They powdered it to prevent further harm.

他们给它抹上，防止进一步破坏。

Now, the liquid is uncountable and so is the powder that's in instant coffee.

那么，液体是不可数，速溶咖啡里也是。

Exactly. Can you hand me the laundry powder?

确实是。你能给我递下洗衣（laundry powder）吗？

After the train had left the station, the lady opened her handbag and took out her powder compact.

火车开出车站后，那位妇女找开了手提，拿出了盒。

I anointed mine head with oil and covered my face thickly with powder.

我往自己头上抹油，还往自己脸上涂满厚厚香。

She tucked away her powder puff as the house-elf straightened up.

她收起扑。家养直起腰。

For grease on silk, you want talcum powder.

你需要爽身来除掉丝绸上油渍。

At the start of 2020, private equity firms held $1.45tn in what they call " dry powder" , and what the rest of us call " cash" : piles of money sitting around awaiting investment. Just imagine what you could do with it.

2020年初，私人股本公司持有1.45万亿美元“干”，以及我们其余人所称“现金”：有成堆闲置资金等待投资，想象一下你能用它来做什么。

It is very hard and cannot be chiselled, but must be ground instead with abrasive powders.

因为水晶质地极为坚硬，它无法用凿子凿，只能用金刚砂慢慢磨。

This powder sort of in the air, people can breathe it in, but they can also live on surfaces for days, even weeks, that's in part what makes it airborne.

这种在空气中，人们可以吸入它，但它们也可以在外界生存几天，甚至几周，这是它在空气中传播部分原因。

These are combined in a chemical reaction to create ethylene dichloride, which is turned into a gas, and then, through a process called " polymerization" , it becomes a fine, white powder called polyvinyl chloride, or PVC.

它们在化学反应中结合，生成二氯乙烯，变成气体，然后，通过一个叫做“聚合”过程，变成一种白色细，叫做聚氯乙烯，简称PVC。

For skiers, Hakkoda's powder is the stuff of dreams.

对于滑雪者来说，八甲田雪就是梦想成真。

A type of protein powder being produced by a company in Finland is making headlines.

芬兰一家公司生产蛋白上了新闻头条。

And we put him on a bonfire and we set fire to him, and we say: " Remember, remember the 5th of November, gun powder, treason, and plot. And we never will forget" , dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah.

我们把它放在篝火上，烧了它，我们说：“记住11月5日，火药，叛国，阴谋。我们绝不忘记。”

For Heimlich, we chose a local anesthetic powder that when dissolved in water and breathes across their gills, causes anesthesia in the same way that would for an air-breathing animal breathing in gas.

我们为海姆利克选择了一种局部麻醉，当它溶解在水中，用鳃呼吸时，产生麻醉效果与呼吸空气动物吸入气体麻醉效果相同。

1919, we had gun powder; 1950, we had nuclear power.

1919 年，我们有枪作为武器；1950 年，我们有了核能。

If the shampoo is like talcum powder, apply it to the roots directly.

如果洗发剂像爽身，则直接涂在发根处。

Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag.

德拉哭完之后，往面颊上抹了抹。