Scientists have shown that a flickering flame is studded with millions of tiny diamonds.

科学家已经证实：一个闪烁的火焰里镶满了数以万计的细小的钻石。

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Because it is active, whenever a row of the waves surging, it reflected in the crests of rays, red and bright, just like a piece of flash burning flame, flickering, disappeared.

因为它是活动的，每当一排排波浪涌起的时候，那映照在浪峰上的霞光，又红又亮，简直就像一片片霍霍燃烧着的火焰，闪烁着，消失了。

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She can make stones jump about like frogs and she can make tongues of flame go flickering across the surface of the water.

她可以把石头变成像青蛙一样跳跃还有她能把火焰舌头闪烁横跨水的表面。

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But the flame on that torch is now only flickering: Roddick is the only one of the new generation to have won a Grand Slam event, the U.S. Open in 2003.

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Instead of coffins, there are 1930s-vintage cardboard and wooden suitcases, each with a flame flickering in a red glass.

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