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，铺设它们美好的进程，它们煮沸大海，烧硬岩层 是花岗岩、灰岩和地壳。

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

，剩下通往走廊的最后一块石头了，他们是扒搔些许灰。

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

它是一种灰岩，呈棕色红色。

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.

但灰岩是由各种奇怪的东西组成的， 比如藻类、生物和碳酸钙，基本上是一种非常特殊的，能够滋养很多种类多样的野生动物。

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

有粘软灰岩与粉笔混合在一起， 我到处都看到相同的脚步声， 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“来自阿热松灰岩的鳄鱼”，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.

凌晨一点前走出来的那个男人脸色苍白如灰，脸上还泛着一层凡士林般的光泽。