You can usually find good clay in low areas of islands or land, especially if volcanoes helped form the land.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

There are lots of Ancient Near Eastern stories of ; Gods fashioning humans from clay; We have depictions of gods as potters at a potter's wheel just turning out lots of little humans.

也有很多古代近东故事,关于上帝用黏土造人;,我们看来上帝就像转盘旁边的陶艺工匠,造出许多小小的人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You know, just the idea of taking clay figures and moving them bit by bit by bit by bit and then filming shot per shot.

就像拿着泥人，把它们一点一点地摆弄然后再一个镜头一个镜头地拍成电影。

蒂姆伯顿最棒 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Clay especially wanted approval of a bill to give the different states money from the sale of public land.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

So while he fashions this clay figure, This carcass actually--and then breathes life, his own life into it.

他便创造了一个黏土人物，这便是身体，然后他吹进了生命之气。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Clay said he did not want to debate, but wished that the senators would think carefully about his proposals.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

There was the wonder I felt when I saw a brace of mountain like, spotted, black-and-white horses clopping down a dusty road through clouds of powdered clay.

我觉到很美妙,当我望见一大群如山般高大的，黑白斑点马压过土路,我觉到很快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the Mexican state of Michoacn potters make white clay containers painted with line drawings of fish and other animals.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

In the normal course of events, clay dissolves and disappears, and any message on it is erased.

因为在一般的情况下,粘土会分崩离析,所有的信息将灰飞烟灭

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Clay urged his friends in the border states between North and South to try to build public support for the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

For example, one thing that could happen is that you build it up with wood and clay, you pick the wrong material for a bridge, and it will not stand up to the forces of nature.

例如,其中的一个问题是,选择了木头和粘土作为造桥的材料,你就选错了材料,这座桥难以与自然力相抗衡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Mister Webster called me to his side and spoke to me of Mister Clay in words of great kindness.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

so you play on a grass as opposed to on the clay

所以，你在绿茵场上比赛，而不是在粘泥土上，

世界级网球比赛 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Throughout history and around the world, people have developed the art of forming clay to make ceramic objects,or pottery.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

His point I think is that Clay exhibited at least on Lincoln's telling something of the philosopher what he loved was an idea the idea of freedom.

我认为，他的观点是Clay展现了,至少依据林肯的叙述，一些哲学家的思维,他爱的是一个理想,自由的理想。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He said he would not have the future citizens of California and New Mexico blaming Henry Clay for slavery there.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Scholars of the Albright school pointed to texts and clay tablets that were discovered in second millennium sites. So you see down on the bottom the second millennium BCE, obviously going down to 1000; first millennium: 1000 to 0.

亚布莱特学院的学者们指的是,两千多年前的遗址中发现文件和泥板文献，你们看下面,公元前第二个千年，再显然的,往下到一千年；第一个千年是公元前1000年到公元元年。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

When he made a trip to Kentucky, he made it clear that he did not want to meet with Clay.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The highway forked off on to a clay road and he turned on to it.

高速公路在此分叉了，他选择了那条泥路。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Once the clay dries, the glassmaker dips the form in a container of hot liquid glass until it is covered.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

He's much more down to earth. He forms the human like a potter working with clay.

这个上帝更现实，他创造人类,就像陶瓷匠制瓷一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Clay proposed that the western border of Texas be changed to give New Mexico most of the land disputed by them.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Not at the same time, but the reason we have any written evidence at all is that there was some kind of conflagration that produced a fire that baked clay into pottery.

虽然不是在同一时间,不过我们能发现这些可读记录,全靠这些意外的火灾,将那些粘土烧制成了陶器

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In one part of the state of Oaxaca, potters have been making black clay containers in the same way for centuries.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

First, the fashioning of the human from clay is--again--in that story, The final climactic act of creation is the creation of the female from the male.

首先，用黏土创造人类又一次出现在故事中，创物行动中的高潮是,从男人身体中创造了女人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

When it is cooked at a very high temperature, the glass pieces melt and take the shape of the clay form.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

So this idea that the human being is a mixture of clay, Captures that paradoxical mix of sort of earthly and divine elements, dependence and freedom that marks the human as unique.

这便是人类是黏土混合物，具有世俗和神圣因素的奇特混合，同时具有依赖性和独立性就是人类特别之外。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Or,they can be more complex such as using liquid glazes to change the color or shininess of the clay surface.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

So in the second creation story beginning in Genesis 2:4, We read that the first human is formed when God fashions it from the dust of the earth or clay.

在《创世纪》第2章第4节开始的第二个创世故事，我们看到第一个人类形成,他上帝用尘土或黏土将人捏造成形。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Clay answered that no power on earth could force him to vote to establish slavery where it did not exist.

VOA: special.2009.03.19