Sometimes, that gel was stuck in bones or bits of wood that had already started to fossilize, so the silica trapped in there formed opals in the shape of those organic structures.

有，这种凝胶留存在骨骼中或是少量已经开始变化的木材里，所以保留在那里的二氧化了那些有机结的欧泊。

It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals.

它比绿宝和蛋更珍贵。

I didn't realize that people didn't wear opals.

我没意识到人们不戴猫眼。

The basic idea of mining is basically extract the opal clay out from the ground, put it onto a truck, I take the truck to a puddling site in town, and check if there's opal in that.

采矿的基本思路就是把含欧泊的泥土挖出来，装上卡车，再运到镇上的淘洗点，检查里面有没有欧泊。

Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.

忽然间，这些吉卜赛人式的姑娘中有一个，满身珠光宝气，一伸手就抓来一杯鸡尾酒，一饮尽为自己壮壮胆子，然后手舞足蹈，一个人跳到篷布舞池中间去表演。

Opal was formed millions of years ago.

蛋形于数百万年前。

He paused to examine a long coil of hangman's rope and to read, smirking, the card propped on a magnificent necklace of opals, Caution: Do Not Touch. Cursed—Has Claimed the Lives of Nineteen Muggle Owners to Date.

德拉科停下来研究一根长长的绞索，又傻笑着念一串华贵的蛋项链上面的牌子：当心：切勿触摸，已被施咒——已经夺走了十九位麻瓜的生命。

For the sake of simplicity, let's look at what happens when a single color of light — green, with a wavelength of 500 nanometers — hits a precious opal.

为了简单解释起见，看看当单一颜色的光——绿色，波长五百奈米——射中珍贵的蛋会如何。

The ordered structures that cause iridescence in opals are called photonic crystals, a kind of crystal where the bending and reflecting of light is happening in three dimensions in a periodic or repeated pattern.

在蛋中产生彩虹色的有序结被称为光子晶体，一种以周期性或重复模式在三维空间内弯曲和反射光的晶体。

Some of these experts include the opal as a fifth precious stone while others consider the pearl in this class.

其中有些专家把猫眼列为第五种宝，有些专家则认为珍珠才是第五种宝。

Nearer at hand, they are like huge blocks of purest marble inlaid with pearl and opal gems.

近了看则像是很多块镶着珍珠和蛋的光洁无比的的大理。

Farintosh, said he. Ah yes, I recall the case; it was concerned with an opal tiara.

法林托歇，他说，啊，是的，我想起了那个案子，是一件和猫儿眼宝女冠冕有关的案子。

I've seen hummingbirds flashing like opals around a tree of scarlet blooms, humming like a top.

我见过蜂鸟穿梭在红花之间，宝般耀眼，嗡嗡轻鸣。

The opal was discovered here in 1915 by a young boy, Willie Hutchison.

蛋是1915年由一个名叫威利·哈奇森的小男孩在这里发现的。

This shimmering, dazzling, dancing display of light comes about from a confluence of chemistry, geology, and optics that define opals from their earliest moments, deep underground.

这种闪烁、耀眼、飞舞的光线呈现会受到化学、地理、光学三种因素的共同影响，当蛋还在地下深处形之初这些因素就定义了它们的色彩。

She was dressed from head to foot in black satin, and many magnificent opals gleamed at her throat and on her thick fingers.

她从头到脚裹着一件黑锻子衣服，脖子上和粗大的手指上都闪耀着许多华贵的蛋。

Compared to common opal, which is usually one color, black opal exhibits many different colors contrasted by a dark body tone.

普通欧泊通常只有单一颜色，黑欧泊却能在深色底调上呈现出多彩的光芒对比。

And just like in an opal, light is bent, waves combine constructively or destructively, and different flashes of color appear.

就像蛋一样，光线弯曲，光波结合的候产生或破坏一些东西，从出现不同的颜色闪光。

Bits of silica settled into the gel and then grew into the spheres that make up opal.

少量二氧化沉淀在凝胶中，之后长为欧泊的球状体。

And a lot of the black opal is found here, at Lightning Ridge.

其中大量的黑欧泊就产自这里——闪电岭。