tallow

With axe and shovel you explore this mine, and follow the marrowy store, yellow as beef tallow, or as if you had struck on a vein of gold, deep into the earth.

你斧头和铲子，探索这个矿藏，沿着那黄黄牛油脂似、骨髓似储藏，或者仿佛找到了金矿矿苗似，一直深入到地里去。

That's difficult for me to understand, however enlightened I may be with sun, moon, stearine, train oil, and tallow.

“我身上——或者身子里——最近起了某种变化：磨石有些异样。