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

它比绿宝石和石更珍贵。

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石，许多很石都来自澳大利亚。

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

因为他们大胆，地球奖励他们破记录、有拳头般大石。

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

骨头多孔材料被填充了小球体，基本上是石。

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和石光洁无比大理石。

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

哈雷慧星石是个奇迹，但矛盾是，它独特性正是它最寻常之处。

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

产生出普通无彩石，只有平凡外观。

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

这一天像石一样炎热闷热。

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

石出人意料地诞生于一种随处可见资源当中——水。

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

” “还不如给了他一个石果实。

" 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，她那戴着许多华丽石大手搭在芙蓉肩头。

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

“就像钻石在相同环境中杀死石一样”。

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

就像石一样，光线弯曲，光波结合时候产生或破坏一些东西，从而出现不同颜色闪光。

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

“石矿工？谁死在车里了？”

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

有极小比例珍贵石会在部分区域中有大小一致矽形成整齐阵列。

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

天空现在是纯净石，房屋屋顶在天空衬托下像银光一样闪闪发光。

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

哈雷慧星石就是一亿年前左右在那里形成。

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，她石饰品在烛光下熠熠闪亮。

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

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

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

那要花非常多时间才能形成，因此，红色是最罕见石颜色。