You feel as Victor Frankenstein must have when the dead conglomeration of sewn-together spare parts suddenly opened its watery yellow eyes.

你的感受一定跟维克多·弗兰肯斯坦相似，当那些死人身体部件缝缀在一起的聚合体然张开了他水汪汪的黄眼睛的一刻。

But they started life as lumps of carbon far below the crust, thrust upwards by a special kind of volcanic eruption.

它们是碳元素的聚合体，形成远壳的方，被一种特殊类型的火山喷发向上推动。