Granite is a rock of this kind.

花岗就属于这种石头。

It takes 10,000 years to wear away an inch of granite.

按一英尺花岗耐磨一万年计算。

It's made out of sandy grey granite, and it's beautifully preserved.

它用灰色磨砂花岗制成，保存得极为完美。

The Granite Mountain Hotshots based in Prescott, Arizona.

花岗山能人组所属亚利桑那州普雷斯特。

This cooling liquid formed a very hard rock known as granite.

这种冷却液体形成了一种非常坚硬的石，被称为花岗。

Pillars made of polished granite are often used in public buildings.

英国的公共建筑，经常用打磨过的花岗子。

If there ever were any in it, they were destroyed when the rock was melted.

如果有过化石，也在花岗熔化的时候毁坏了。

The building's white exterior tiles came from Belgium, and its entrances were lined with Spanish granite.

该建筑的白色外墙砖来自比利时，入口处用西班牙花岗铺设。

Oysters were seeded on the piers and ever since, their concretions have helped cement the granite blocks together.

在桥墩上进行牡蛎育种之后，利用它们的凝固物可以将花岗胶合凝结起来。

New Hampshire, in the northeast area called New England, is The Granite State because of that colorful rock.

位于东北部新英格兰地区的新罕布什尔州叫“花冈州”，因为这里含有五颜六色的花岗。

Leave the bright lights and noise of the city even further behind, amid granite-studded peaks of Bukhansan National Park.

远离城市的霓虹与喧闹 到更远的地方，尽情徜徉在花岗峰顶围绕的 北汉山国立公园。

There are hardly any plants and that's not surprising the island is mostly granite and quartz as for its neighbor.

岛上几乎没有任何植物，毫不奇怪，它的周围主要是花岗和石英。

During the great Ice Age, millions of tons of ice cut and shaped the cooled granite to form giant rocks.

在伟大的冰河时代，数百万吨冰块切割成冷却的花岗，从而形成巨大的石。

But the story of our granite is not the story of all rocks.

但我们花岗的故事并不是 所有石的故事。

And it might seem like the granite outcrop is just sitting there doing nothing.

看起来花岗露头 只是坐在那里无所事事。

It's been closed since August 23 2011 when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the marble and granite, sending debris flying.

2011年8月23日发的里氏5.8级地震撼动了这座纪念碑的大理石和花岗, 造成碎片四散。

Twelve feet tall, its skin was a dull, granite grey.

它有十二英尺高，皮肤暗淡无光，象花岗一般灰乎乎的。

Yet somehow our chunk of granite made its way to the surface.

然而不知何故，我们的花岗块 浮出水面。

And granite is an intrusive igneous rock.

花岗是一种侵入性火成。

So part of our granite boulder is actually lying on the bottom of the ocean.

所以我们的花岗巨石的一部分实际上 躺在海底。