These rocks are an expression of our love.

这些小石子是我爱情的见证。

The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet.

汽车道上的小石子在他脚底下喀嚓作响。

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

有时也使用沙子或小石子来帮助固定植物。

Down the middle is a path of small stones.

在树篱中间是一条由小石子铺就的小道。

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

我还会帮助他从豆子中挑出小石子。

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

JAD：我要在秤上放一块小石子。

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

这儿有狭窄的小路，漂亮的小溪，小石子桥，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，小石子滚得马车箱底满地都是。

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

这不是一种光滑、结实的斜坡，而是小石子和碎屑的斜坡。

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

他拿起耙子， 认真地把沙子里的小石子挖出来。

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

我将现实视为抽象思维中不起眼的小石子，超越现实的美妙抽象思维。

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

而且 你爸爸能把我从整晚小石子的声响里拯救出来真是太好了。

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的手里拿着一个小石子。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.

就在牧童酣睡际，大哥沃尔特走了进来，他将撕碎的牛群扔进篮子，用小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.

如果你想象一颗小石子掉进池塘，空间和时间就是那个池塘，小石子的掉落是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，一路上有些小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， 研究者向它示范把小石子丢进水箱中，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.

我能够 (已经) 在湿润的沙地上建房子，这是因为大部分时候这些小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.

当我踩在水边的饱和沙子上时，感觉相当稳，这是因为小石子互相挤压、推挤，从而结构紧凑，此时多余的水分会被挤压到压力较小的地方。

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.”

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