Back in 1909, a layer of bricks was laid on top of the rock and tar surface of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

在1909年，一层砖块被铺在了印第安纳波利斯赛车道石头和沥青的表面。

The Greek historian told of its use in the form of pitch for building and road making.

希腊历史学家表示它的用途是用作修建房屋和道路的沥青。

Same goes for fresh asphalt, which reflects about 4% of the visible light hits it.

同理，刚铺好的沥青大约反射四的见光。

And I am a dinosaur marching into the tar pit.

那我就是一只正在走进沥青坑的大恐龙咯。

Real roads are paved with materials such as asphalt.

真正的道路是用沥青类的材料铺成的。

Or you could pave with cement-based concrete, which is stiffer than asphalt.

或者用比沥青硬的水泥基混凝土铺路。

Back in 1927, this glob of pitch was placed into a funnel, and ever since then, in nearly 90 years, it has produced only 9 drips—roughly 1 a decade—and no one has ever been in the

年，这团沥青被放入了一个漏斗中。而且，来没有人亲眼看到过沥青滴下的瞬间。

If you live in a big city, you know how hot it can get in the summer, especially with all that heat radiating up off the concrete and asphalt, that's called the urban heat island effect.

如你住在大城市，你肯定知道夏天有多热，尤其是混凝土和沥青所散发的热量，这就是城市热岛效应。

So the pitch and sulphur-freighted brigs of the bold Hydriote, Canaris, issuing from their midnight harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and folded them in conflagrations.

勇敢的海德里沃特和卡纳里斯便是这样驾驶着满载沥青和硫黄的双桅帆船，午夜他们的港口冲出来，乘着大片大片的火焰飞奔，直扑向土耳其护卫舰，将它们卷入烈火当中。

Gorilla glass victus can drop from two meters in height which is taller than I am, onto a rough surface like asphalt and has 2x better scratch performance than our previous glass.

" 大猩猩玻璃Victus" 两米高的地方掉下来，这个高度比我还高，落在沥青等粗糙的表面上，划痕性能是我们前的玻璃的两倍。

And as it turned out, the sheer scale of the bitumen crude oil found in the Adabasca oil stands was vastly larger than anybody had previously believed.

事实证明，在阿萨巴斯卡油藏中发现的沥青原油的规模远远超出了人们前的想象。

Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico's southwest coast on Sunday as it unleashed landslides, knocked the power grid out, and ripped up asphalt from roads and flung the pieces around.

飓风“菲奥娜”周日在波多黎各的西南海岸登陆，引发了山体滑坡、摧毁了电网、掀翻了道路上的沥青，碎片四处飞溅。

That is more than three times as much as the 120m tonnes of bitumen produced annually, most of which goes into building the world's roads.

这是每年生产的1.2亿公吨沥青的三倍还多，大部沥青都被用于建造世界范围内的公路。

Then, among this basaltic rock, there snaked long, hardened lava flows inlaid with veins of bituminous coal and in places covered by wide carpets of sulfur.

其次在玄武石岩中间，有冷了的火石的长流迁回环绕，嵌上许多沥青的线纹，同时又一处处铺着硫磺形成的宽阔地毯。

My dad was a roofer, construction guy, he owned small businesses, and at 80, he was ready to retire and his tar kettle was my inheritance.

我的父亲是一名屋顶工，建筑工人。他的生意不大。在他80岁的时候，他准备退休了。 于是我继承了他留下的沥青锅。

Rolled around a wooden cylinder and packed into a crate smothered with tar, " The Wedding Feast at Cana" was shipped to the Louvre.

这幅《加纳的婚礼》被卷在一个木制圆筒上，装进一个涂满沥青的板条箱里，被运到了卢浮宫。

All around, the neighborhood of roofs, black-tarred and A-framed, and in their gutters, the balls that never came back down to earth.

上面张望，周围都是邻里的屋顶，A字形，浇了黑色的沥青。上面的天沟里，躺着一些永远不再着地的皮球。

Here is the Standard of Ur where mosaic inlaid in bitumen showed the scenes that mattered most.

这是乌尔军旗沥青上镶嵌的马赛克图案展现了当时最为重要的场景。

It also comes in pumpkin flavored, if you'd prefer that to the wet-cigar, boiled-asphalt flavor that occurs naturally. I do!

这还有南瓜口味喔，如比起像湿雪茄和煮沸沥青的原味，你更喜欢南瓜口味的话。我喜欢!

The Keystone XL pipeline is a bid in part to bring oil from Canada's tar sands

美国的输油管道项目计划将加拿大的沥青砂加工成石油，然后输入到墨西哥湾岸区的一些炼油厂进行加工。