These rocks are an expression of our love.

这些石子我们爱情的见证。

The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet.

汽车道上的石子在他脚底下喀嚓作响。

Sometimes sand or small stones are used to help hold up the plants.

有时也使用沙子或石子来帮助固定植物。

Down the middle is a path of small stones.

在树篱中间一条由石子铺就的道。

We also would help them sort the pebbles out of the beans.

我们还会帮助他们从豆子中挑出石子。

I'm gonna put a little pebble on the scale.

JAD：我要在秤上放一块石子。

There are narrow alleys, pretty streams, small stone bridges, and brick and tile houses with carved doors and painted windows.

这儿有狭窄的路，漂亮的溪，石子桥，以及砖房，门有雕刻，窗户也画着画。

The pocket fell, and the pebbles rolled all over the bottom of the wagon box.

口袋掉了下来，石子滚得马车箱底满地都。

It was not a smooth, firm slope, but a slope of small stones and rubbish.

这不一种光滑、结的斜坡，石子和碎屑的斜坡。

He took his rake and began to work seriously at getting small stones out of the sand.

他拿起耙子， 开始认真地把沙子里的石子挖出来。

We've started to think of reality as this kind of gray pebble at the center of wonderful abstract thought that transcends it.

我们开始将现视为抽象思维中不起眼的石子，超越现的美妙抽象思维。

And besides, it was really cool of your dad to rescue me from another night of fruity pebbles.

且 你爸爸能把我从整晚石子的声响里拯救出来真太好了。

Just then Dick saw that Ned had a small stone in his hand. Dick thought that he meant to throw it at the poor lark.

就在这时Dick看到Ned的手里拿着一个石子。Dick觉得Ned想把石子扔向百灵鸟。

Then there entered his big brother Walter, While the shepherd was soundly asleep, And he cut up the cows into baskets, And to jackstones turned all of the sheep.

就在牧童酣睡之际，大哥沃尔特走了进来，他将撕碎的牛群扔进篮子，用石子取代了罗伊的羊群。

If you imagine sort of a pebble falling into a pond, space and time are that pond and the drop of the pebble is the first time the two black holes collide.

如果你想象一颗石子掉进池塘，空间和时间就那个池塘，石子的掉落两个黑洞第一次碰撞。

Those she found on the ground were mostly rotten. She filled her skirt with the best of them and came back across the soft earth, collecting small pebbles in her slippers.

她把最好的几个装满裙兜，踏着柔润的土地走回来，一路上有些石子钻进她的便鞋里。

In another raccoon study, researchers showed the animals that by dropping pebbles into a water tank, they could raise the water level enough to reach a marshmallow floating at the top.

在另一项对浣熊的研究中， 研究者向它们示范把石子丢进水箱中，就可以把水位提高，拿到浮在上面的棉花糖。

We can (and do) build buildings on wet sandy soil since the weight of the grains and the friction between them makes the soil behave as a solid most of the time.

我们能够 (已经) 在湿润的沙地上建房子，这因为大部分时候这些石子的纹理和摩擦力使得沙地处于稳定的固态。

When we step on saturated sand at the water's edge, it's fairly stable because the particles get pushed together and rest on each other, while any excess water escapes by flowing away to where the pressure is lower.

当我们踩在水边的饱和沙子上时，感觉相当稳，这因为石子互相挤压、推挤，从结构紧凑，此时多余的水分会被挤压到压力较的地方。

My lower leg was broken in at least nine places— the orthopedic surgeon who put me together again, the formidable David Brown, said that the region below my right knee had been reduced to “so many marbles in a sock.”

我右腿腿骨折至少有九处——那位将我重新接在一起的整形外科医生，令我望生畏的大卫·布朗说过，我右膝盖以下碎得好比“一只袜子里装满了石子”。