" Quire right! You recognized it, I suppose, by its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen? "

“非常正确！我想，你是通过它特有的珍珠母的光泽认出来的吧？”

The sac coats the irritant with layers of smooth nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl.

珍珠囊给刺激物外裹一层层光滑的珍珠层即珍珠母。

To protect itself from the invader, the mollusk starts to coat the debris with nacre, or mother-of-pearl, the same material that lines the inner layer of its shell.

为了保护自己免受入侵者的伤害，软体动物开始在碎屑珍珠质，或珍珠母，这种材料与软体动物外壳内层的材料相同。

One of the most touching pieces in the show is a small curl of blonde hair pasted onto a heart-shaped piece of mother-of-pearl.

本次展览最为感人的展品之一就是粘在一块心形珍珠母的一小鬈金发。

Some of these shells were furrowed with flaky, greenish bands that radiated down from the top. These were the young oysters.

有些珍珠母的外壳面带一条一条的淡青色线纹，线纹尽头处有些发亮。这是属于年轻一类的珍珠母。

But it could be tinted and patterned to mimic more expensive materials like coral, tortoiseshell, amber, and mother-of-pearl.

但赛璐珞可以色，加印图样 龟、及珍珠母。龟、及珍珠母。

The others had rugged black surfaces, measured up to fifteen centimeters in width, and were ten or more years old.

别的珍珠母，表面粗一点，黑一点，有十岁以的年龄了，宽大可以到十五厘米。

The shellfish Meleagrina, that womb for pearls whose valves are nearly equal in size, has the shape of a round shell with thick walls and a very rough exterior.

杂色小纹贝，所谓珍珠母的两片介壳差不多相等，壳作圆环形，壳壁很厚，外表很粗，凹凸不平。

It was made of ivory silk tulle and embellished with mother of pearl sequins.

它由象牙色丝绸薄纱制成，并点缀着珍珠母亮片。

He brought her a prayerbook bound in mother-of-pearl.

他给她带来了一本珍珠母装订的祈祷书。

Get ready to see mother of pearl skyscrapers.

准备好参观珍珠母摩天大楼。

In the corners stood carved cupboards, damascened with ebony and mother-of-pearl.

角落里放着雕花橱柜， 镶嵌着乌木和珍珠母。

She looked down at the mother-of-pearl opera-glass in her smoothly gloved hands, and said, after a pause: " What do you do while May is away? " " I stick to my work, " he answered, faintly annoyed by the question.

她低头看着光滑的戴着手套的手中的珍珠母歌剧玻璃，停顿了一下后说：“梅不在的时候你做什么？ ” “我坚持我的工作， ” 他回答说，有点生气由问题。

Last year, a Middle Eastern client ordered a car bedecked with Mother of Pearl and a roof lining of the stars on the day he was born.

去年，一位中东客户定制了一辆镶嵌有珍珠母和车顶内饰为出生当天星空图案的汽车。

My mom had gotten me a caviar little glass bowl that you put ice in, and it comes with little mother of pearl spoons.

我妈妈给我买了一个装鱼子酱的小玻璃碗，里面还可以放冰块，还配有一套小珍珠母勺子。

So we hid it behind these vintage doors from India and all the little white parts are all mother of pearl inlay.

所以我们把它藏在这些来自印度的老式门后面，所有的白色小部件都是珍珠母镶嵌的。

His face was painless and he had this kind of pearlescent colour Like the inside of a shell.

他的面容毫无痛楚，肤色呈现出一种珍珠母般的光泽，宛如贝壳内壁的色彩。

Oh, and could you make sure those are real mother-of-pearl buttons on the shirts, okay?

哦，你能确保这些是衬衫真正的珍珠母纽扣吗，好吗？

Every time we see nacre coming up in somebody else's book, well, no, they just nicked it.

每次我们在别人的书中看到有珍珠母出现时，其实他们只是稍微借鉴了一下。

You see, I had to look up, no, nacre.

你看，我不得不查了一下，不，是珍珠母。