1·The cut of a diamond depends on the skill of its craftsman.
切割钻石的好坏取决于工匠的技艺。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·In industry, diamond can form a tough, non-corrosive coating for tools.
在工业中，钻石可以制成工具上的一层坚硬且耐腐蚀的涂层。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·It was a beautiful diamond ring.
那是一只美丽的钻石戒指。
4·What is diamond after all?
钻石到底是什么呢？
5·It was a large diamond, but it had a flaw.
这是颗大钻石，但它有一点瑕疵。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
1·US scientist Jared Diamond believes that the Rapanui people—descendants of Polynesian settlers—wrecked their own environment.
美国科学家贾里德·戴蒙德认为，拉帕努伊人，即波利尼西亚定居者的后代，破坏了他们自己的环境。
2·Diamond thinks they laid the moai on wooden sledges, hauled over log rails, but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of people.
戴蒙德认为他们把摩艾石像放在木制雪橇上，然后拖过原木轨道，但这需要很多木材和人力。
3·The collapse of their isolated civilization, Diamond writes, is a "worst-case scenario for what may lie ahead of us in our own future".
戴蒙德写道，他们的孤立文明的崩溃，是“我们未来可能面临的最糟糕的情况”。
4·But Diamond wasn't out to further prove the perfection of markets.
但是戴蒙德并没有试图进一步证明市场的完美性。
5·Varley and Diamond declined bonuses for a second year in 2009, even after second-half profit more than doubled from the year-earlier period.
瓦利和戴蒙德2009年都拒绝了第二年的红利，即使下半年的盈利相当于去年同期的一倍多。