grain

We spent hours, hours and hours and days and years and years and I removed the sand grains, grain by grain, working every day.

我们花了成年累月的时间 一点一点去掉这些砂岩 每天都得工作

Shave with the grain, against the grain, or just tell the hair there's something cool you saw in the sink.

顺向剃须 逆向剃须 或只是告诉胡须水池里有个东西特别酷

These are these grains that we make in the gas and that get deposited onto a window and piled on top of each other until we have a thin layer of these dust grains.

这些是气体中 产生的那些颗粒 它们沉降在 一面窗上 一层层堆叠 直到形成薄薄一层的尘埃颗粒

You start with dust grains, those dust grains somehow *ush together, they get bigger and bigger and bigger until you get pebbles and rocks and boulders.

从尘埃起 这些尘埃因某种原因撞到一起 然后越滚越大 越滚越大 直到出现卵石 石块 岩石

And as we place each kernel of buckwheat, one by one, back into the pillowcase, making sure that each little grain is free of weevils or mealworms, let us reflect on what each of these 3,000 grains of buckwheat represent to us.

我们把荞麦芯 一粒一粒地 放回到枕套里 确保每一粒都没有象鼻虫 或者米虫 与此同时我们思考这三千颗荞麦芯的每一颗 对我们有什么意义

That's with grain from our own fields.

这还只是本国的土地出产的粮食

What are you doing? I'm unsealing your grains.

你在干什么 我在开封你的谷物

I knew you would signal for the grain.

我知道你会发信号送粮食来

And he's advising them on all of their grain stuff.

他负责给他们做苏联粮食的顾问

There is not a handful of grain to spare.

我们甚至腾不出一勺谷物来分享