Time and Thought were my surveyors, They laid their courses well, They boiled the sea, and baked the layers Or granite, marl, and shell.

时间与思想将我检验，铺设它们美好进程，它们煮沸大海，烧硬层 或是花岗、泥灰壳。

When they reached the last stone, which would give them access to the corridor, they scraped only a certain amount of plaster.

终于，只剩下通往走廊最后一块石头了，他们只是扒搔些许泥灰。

It is a kind of marl, of a brown or reddish color.

它是一种泥灰，呈棕色或红色。

But the marl is made up of a bunch of different weird stuff like algae and microbes and calcium carbonate, and it's a very specific kind of mud or dirt, basically, that feeds a lot of very diverse wildlife.

但泥灰是由各种奇怪东西组成， 比如藻类、生物碳酸钙，基本上是一种非常特殊泥或土，能够滋养很多种类多生动物。

There was clay or soft marl mixed with the chalk, and every here and there I saw the same footstep, both ascending and descending.

有粘土或软泥灰与粉笔混合在一起， 我到处都看到相同脚步声， 既有上升也有下降。

Cuvier described this animal as " the crocodile from the Marl of Argenton" which sounds a lot more regal in French.

居维叶将这种动物描述为“来自阿热松泥灰鳄鱼”，在法语中听起来要尊贵得多。

The man who finally came out shortly before one o'clock was the color of putty, with a Vaseline glaze.

凌晨一点前走出来那个男人脸色苍白如泥灰，脸上还泛着一层凡士林般光泽。