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

它比绿宝石和蛋白石更珍贵。

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

这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。

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。

So you've got, opals are made up with these little spheres of silica.

你可以看到，蛋白石是由这些小硅石球组成的。

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无比的的大理石。

The vast majority of the time, this structure is haphazard, resulting in common, or potch, opals with unremarkable exteriors.

产生出普通无彩的蛋白石，只有平凡的外观。

The Halley's Comet opal is a marvel, but its uniqueness is, paradoxically, the most usual thing about it.

哈雷慧星蛋白石是个奇迹，但矛盾的是，它的独特性正是它最寻常之处。

The day was as hot and sultry as a fire opal.

这一天像火蛋白石一样炎热闷热。

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可见的资源当中——水。

The tiny, mesmerizing percentage we call precious opals have regions where silica beads of uniform size form orderly arrays.

有极小比例的珍贵蛋白石会在部分区域中有大小一致的矽珠形成整齐的阵列。

' 'Might as well have given him an Opal Fruit.

” “还不如给了他一个蛋白石果实。

'As a diamond kills an opal in the same setting'.

“就像钻石在相同的环境中杀死蛋白石一样”。

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

“这不可能，”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。

" The opal miner? Who died in the car? "

“蛋白石矿工？谁死在车里了？”

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。

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。

The sky was pure opal now, and the roofs of the houses glistened like silver against it.

天空现在是纯净的蛋白石，房屋的屋顶在天空的衬托下像银光一样闪闪发光。

Years Earlier in 1995, hurricane Opal made landfall near Pensacola Beach, Florida as a category three storm.

几年前的 1995 年，飓风“蛋白石”在佛罗里达州彭萨科拉海滩附近登陆，为三级风暴。

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。

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。