I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case, coalescing.

我认为它是用来黏合鲸脑窝那层奇妙薄膜。

Cockroaches can eat a variety of organic matter, including hair, dead skin, adhesives, and paper.

蟑螂可以食用不同有机物，包括头发、死皮、黏合剂和纸张。

Guilt, in other words, can help hold a cooperative species together. It is a kind of social glue.

换句话说，内疚可以维护一个群体合作性，成为某种社会黏合剂。

Straddling the boundary between the sacred and the profane, they can be great social unifiers and dividers.

它游荡在神圣与世俗边界，能成为社会黏合剂，也能让社会分化。

The plaster that held the stones of the wall together was crumbly from age and from the dampness of the dungeon.

墙壁上黏合石头灰泥因为地年久潮湿变得疏松易碎。

Join the two pieces of wood with strong glue.

【join】用强力胶水把两块木头黏合起来。

Use a glue gun to form a strong bond on wood or china.

【bond】用喷胶枪使木头或瓷地黏合起来。

It has the enormous subjective value of serving as a binder, of holding together a divided individual.

它具有巨大主观价值， 充当了一种黏合剂，将一个分裂个体凝聚在一起。

As the snowflake moves through the air, water vapor molecules stick to the six sharp edges and expand the snowflake outwards, bit by bit.

当雪花在空气中移动，水蒸气分子黏合在六个锋利边缘使雪花向外一点一点扩大。

For example, a part of a gene that may give rise to a disease. Cellular machinery is then used to basically glue two ends of the DNA back together.

比如说，基因中一个可能引起疾病片段，然后利用细胞机把 DNA 两个断点重新“黏合”起来。

The result is a wonderful surface for writing on-papyrus went on being used across the Mediterranean until about a thousand years ago, and indeed gave most European languages their very word for paper.

纸莎草有机纤维会自然地缠绕在一起，不需要胶水黏合，十分方便。最后我们得到便是一张极适合书写光滑纸面。莎草纸在地中海地区广泛使用，直到一千年前才被替代。莎草纸也是欧洲各国语言中纸一词来源。

In one sense the bond is very strong, it is why water molecules can flow uphill when siphoned and why water droplets on a car hood show such a singular determination to bead with their partners.

在一定意义上，这种黏合是非常，所以，水分子可以通过吸管流往高处，汽车发动机罩上小水滴会与伙伴们形成水珠。

It is composed of what sounds like a bizarre mixture: fly-ash, a fine-grained waste product from coal-fired power stations; carbon nanotubes, cylindrical molecules made of elemental carbon; and two binding agents, sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide.

煤灰，火力发电厂排放细颗粒废弃物；碳纳米管，即柱状碳分子；还有两种黏合剂：硅酸钠和氢氧化钠。

The arrangement essentially is that among the basic building blocks of matter are quarks; these are held together by particles called gluons; and together quarks and gluons form protons and neutrons, the stuff of the atom's nucleus.

这种安排其实说明，在物质基本材料中有夸克；夸克由名叫胶子粒子黏合在一起；夸克和胶子一起形成了原子核材料，即质子和中子。