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

它比绿宝石和蛋白石更珍贵。

Opal was formed millions of years ago.

蛋白石形成于数百万年前。

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白石项链上面的牌子：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——射中珍贵的蛋白石时会如何。

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.

在蛋白石中生彩虹色的有序结构被称为光子晶体，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。

" C'est impossible, " said Madame Maxime, whose enormous hand with its many superb opals was resting upon Fleur's shoulder.

“能，”马克西姆夫人说，她那戴着许多华丽蛋白石的大手搭在芙蓉的肩头。

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白石的光洁无比的的大理石。

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

蛋白石是1915年由一个名叫威利·哈奇森的小男孩在里发现的。

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.

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，当蛋白石还在地下深处形成之初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白石。

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

就像蛋白石一样，光线弯曲，光波结合的时候生或破坏一些东西，从而出现同的颜色闪光。

It was there that the Halley's Comet opal formed some 100 million years ago.

哈雷慧星蛋白石就是一亿年前左右在那里形成的。

And so when the light hits those, they go hurrah, and you get these great flashes of color that we love in opals.

所以当光线照射到它们时，它们欢呼起来，然后就有了些我们喜欢的蛋白石颜色的巨大闪光。

Harry saw him give a small wave, and looking around, saw Madame Maxime return it, her opals glittering in the candlelight.

哈利看见海格挥了挥手，他扭过头，看见马克西姆夫人也朝海格挥手致意，她的蛋白石饰品在烛光下熠熠闪亮。

That porous material that was the bone got filled in with little spheres, opal, basically.

骨头的多孔材料被填充了小球体，基本上是蛋白石。

It's there that an opal begins its life as something surprisingly abundant: water.

蛋白石出人意料地诞生于一种随处见的资源当中——水。

And for their audacity, the earth rewarded them with a fist-sized, record-breaking opal.

因为他们的大胆，地球奖励他们破记录的、有拳头般大的蛋白石。

So this is an opal from Australia which is where a lot of the great opals come from.

是一种来自澳大利亚的蛋白石，许多很棒的蛋白石都来自澳大利亚。

It's a whale bone from Australia that's in the earth that is not just a bone anymore, but it's been turned into opal. - I know.

是一块来自澳大利亚的鲸鱼骨头，它在地球上，再只是一块骨头，而是变成了蛋白石。- 我知道。

Those take a very long time to form, and because of that, red is the rarest opal color.

那要花非常多的时间才能形成，因此，红色是最罕见的蛋白石颜色。