Look, it's like imagine your best kiss ever.

想像你们最销魂骨的吻。

The delicately etched patterns are rather faint and not terribly arresting to the untrained eye.

面出的精美图案不大清楚，对没有受过训练的人来说没有多大吸引力。

Or Total Eclipse of the Fart.

或 屁的。

But I stood at the wall for an extra beat, trying to imagine the life behind that etching.

但我在墙边站了一会儿，试图想象那幅刻背后的生命。

There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames.

白色护墙板很高，绿色的糊墙纸挂着嵌在精致的黑镜框里的惠斯勒【杰姆斯·艾波特·麦克奈尔·惠斯勒（1834-1903），美国家和刻家，长期定居英国】的刻。

Acidic gases and heat escaping from magma can corrode rock through a process called hydrothermal alteration, gradually turning hard stone into soft clay.

从岩浆中逸出的酸性气体和热量可以通过称为热液变的过程腐岩石，逐渐将坚硬的石头变成软粘土。

Scientists in Australia found microbes known as Thiobacillus concretivorans that lived in, indeed, could not live without-concentrations of sulfuric acid strong enough to dissolve metal.

澳大利亚科学家发现，有一种名叫固硫杆菌的细菌生活在浓度高得足以溶解金属的硫酸里，实际，它们离开了浓硫酸就活不成。

It had just taken longer than the anticipated 24 to 48 hours for salty seawater to gnaw through the wire, probably because chemistry happens at a slower pace in subfreezing Arctic seawater.

可能因为在冰点以下的北极海水里，化学反应发生的速度比较慢，咸水穿这条线的时间比预期的24到48小时还要久。