The bigger the pores, the easier the gas can spread.

孔隙越大，气体就越容易扩散。

The Earth is full of empty space.

个地球也有无数孔隙。

The necessary space is there, however, in many forms.

地下水是指渗入到地下并将所有岩石孔隙填满的水。到现在为止，大气水是最丰富的地下水资源，是地下水在水循环中的一个环节。普通的大气水会从地表、降水以及湖泊河流侵入到地下。在再次冒出地表之前，这些地下水有时会长时间留在地下。最初让人觉得难以置信的是，在我们脚下“坚实的”土地中竟然有足够的间能储存这么些水。

The incense smoke rises from the holes, eventually, the hill censer becomes a dreamland in miniature.

香烟从孔隙中升起，最终，博山炉便造了境。

He speculated that the jet becomes unstable inside that gap, setting up an acoustic feedback loop within the gap.

他怀疑蒸汽经过盖子孔隙时变得不稳定，是在间隙内引起了声学回路。

The stowaway microbes embedded themselves deep within the pores of the speeding comet, sheltering themselves from the radiation of deep space.

这些“偷渡”的微生物将自己深藏在高速飞行的彗星孔隙中，以避免被太中的辐射所伤。

Once the sugars enter the fungus, they travel along the hyphae through pores between cells or through special hollow transporter hyphae.

糖类进入真后，它们通过细胞间的孔隙或特殊的中转运体沿播。

As sun heats the graphite, it creates a pressure difference that pulls water up through the foam pores, like a sponge.

随着太阳不断对石墨进行加热，就会产生一个压力差，而后像挤海绵一样，水分从泡沫孔隙中被挤压出来。

There are grains and there are pores between those grains.

有颗粒，颗粒之间有孔隙。

The high porosity of limestone presents another complication.

石灰石的高孔隙率带来了另一个复杂问题。

This gel was then peeled off, leaving imprints of tiny pores from the nanoparticles.

这种凝胶随后被剥离，留下了纳米粒子微小孔隙的印记。

It's traversed by cracks, voids and tiny pores.

它布满了裂缝、洞和微小的孔隙。

They can sneak through the little holes in those biological fences.

它们能悄悄穿过生物屏障上的微小孔隙。

So bookmark this concept of pressure and pore space and porosity.

所以，请记住压力、孔隙间和孔隙度的概念。

When pores on leaves open up during photosynthesis, plants also lose a lot of water.

当光合作用期间叶片上的孔隙打开时, 植物也会损失大量水分。

Consolidated (or cemented) sediments, too, contain millions of minute water-holding pores.

固结（或胶结）沉积物也含有数百万个微小的保水孔隙。

Instead, an eggshell has very small pores that allow oxygen to come in.

相反，蛋壳有非常小的孔隙，可以让氧气进入。

When a body of cohesionless soil is saturated, water fills the pore spaces between  each particle.

当一种无黏性土壤被饱和时，水分会充满每个颗粒之间的孔隙间。

Some wavelengths of light disappeared down into the pores, while others were reflected, creating vivid colors.

一些波长的光消失到孔隙中，而另一些则被反射，形成了鲜艳的颜色。

And we can also fracture rock now, which means that we can create pore space where pore space does not exist naturally.

现在我们还可以压裂岩石了，意即，我们可以在原本没有孔隙间的地方制造出孔隙间来。