Ice is crystalline, and so are diamonds, and salt.

冰、钻石、还有盐，都是晶体。

But crystalline sugar remained rare until around 500 AD.

但直到公元 500 年左右，晶糖仍然很少见。

But he wrote about that too, in poignant, crystalline vignettes about his upbringing and travels.

但他也同样这样写过这些，就写在那些关于教训和人生旅行的辛酸和水晶般的小拼图中。

And in between those crystalline nanowires, Joester and his colleagues discovered a sort of amorphous glue.

而在这些晶状纳米线中，乔斯特尔和同事们发现了一种非固定形状的胶质。

In that pure form, caffeine is a white crystalline powder that has a pretty bitter taste.

在这种纯形态下，咖啡因是一种白色晶状粉末，味道相苦。

It actually has six different crystalline structures it can take on when it melts and then solidifies.

它融化然后再固化时，以形成6种不同的晶体。

The magnetic field of the star penetrates this crystalline crust and stretches out for quite a distance.

恒星的磁场穿透这层水晶状的地壳，向外延伸相远的距离。

Most metals have a crystalline structure, the atoms are ordered into a specific, repeated pattern that makes it stiff.

大多数金属拥有一个晶体，原子排于特定的重复的模式，使之坚硬。

Here's how spiders do it: They store proteins called “spidroins” in a liquid crystalline solution called “dope.”

它们将“蜘蛛丝蛋白”储存在一种叫做“纺丝液”的液晶溶液中。

To manufacture these integrated circuits, the transistors are built up layer by layer, on a pure crystalline silicon wafer.

为了制造这些集成电路，晶体管需要在纯晶体硅片上一层一层地组装起来。

The transistor used to be a big, bulky device, until the invent of the integrated circuit based on pure crystalline silicon wafers.

过去晶体管是一种又大又笨重的器件，直到基于纯晶硅晶片的集成电路的发明后才慢慢改变。

Those crystals then act as a nidus, or place where more solutes can deposit and over time it builds up a crystalline structure.

然后这些晶体作为一个“巢”，越来越多的溶质将会在此累积，随着时间的推移，逐渐建成一个晶体。

This new " craft ice" even looked different: crystalline, " water-clear" in Arnold's formulation, carved (in the fanciest bars) or shaved into exquisite shapes.

这种新的“工艺冰块”甚至连看上去都与众不同：晶莹剔透，阿诺德将其描述为“无色透明”，雕刻(在最高档的酒吧里)或切成精美的形状。

It's a ceramic, which means the material starts as a powder, and is then heated up until it melts, and then cooled into a crystalline structure similar to glass.

像一种制陶技术，这种材料从粉末开始，加热直至熔化，随后冷却至相似于玻璃的晶体。

Hair cells are found all the way down to the most primitive of fishes, and those of reptiles often have this really beautiful, almost crystalline, order.

一直到最原始的鱼类中，都能发现毛细胞的身影，而爬行动物的毛细胞通常呈现出这种非常美丽的、近乎晶体状的有序。

Like the value that I place on corndogs, or Russian hiphop polka, or that girl who sat next to me in Algebra class who had skin like Alabaster and and eyes that shone like crystalline bismuth.

就像我对玉米热狗，俄罗斯嘻哈波尔卡，或者在我的代数课上坐在我旁边的那个女孩所赋予的价值一样，她的皮肤光洁雪白，眼睛像铋晶体一样闪闪发光。