1·These are far better than pebbles!
这些比鹅卵石好得多！
2·The water was always laden with pebbles, gravel, and sand, known as glacial outwash, that was deposited as the flow slowed down.
水里总是遍布鹅卵石、砾石和沙子——它们被称为冰水沉积，是在水流减缓时沉积下来的。
3·At first it may have been grains or pebbles but now it is a memorised sequence of words that happen to be the names of the numbers.
一开始它可能是谷物或鹅卵石，但现在它碰巧是一个数字名称的记忆单词序列。
4·She turns the pebbles over and over, rhythmically, rocking.
她将鹅卵石有节奏的一遍一遍地翻转。
5·It's a windswept, freezing January afternoon on a remote beach in Scotland, and I'm watching four horses, each with a child on its back, plodding across the pebbles.
这是苏格兰的一处边远海滩，一月份特有的刮风而又寒冷的下午，我注视着四匹马，每匹马都载着一个小孩，缓慢的行进在鹅卵石小路上。
1·I threw pebbles at the hens, and that made them jump and squawk.
我朝母鸡扔卵石，吓得它们乱跳乱叫。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The commonest spaces are those among the particles—sand grains and tiny pebbles—of loose, unconsolidated sand and gravel.
最常见的空间是那些由松散的、未固结的砂和砾石组成的颗粒（沙粒和小卵石）之间的空间。
3·The sample consisted of pebbles of hardened sediment that had once been soft, deep-sea mud, as well as granules of gypsum and fragments of volcanic rock.
这一样本包括曾经柔软的的硬化沉积物的卵石、深海淤泥以及石膏颗粒和火山岩碎片。
4·They'd both looked down at the snake then, its eyes like two pebbles, its body all but indistinguishable from the length of rough wood it was stretched out on.
于是，他们俩低下头看着蛇，它的眼睛就像两粒卵石一般，躯体如粗糙的木头伸展着，几乎分辨不出它的轮廓来。
5·So inside the graphite, the pebbles are literally dropped in place and discharged through the bottom and then recycled.
所以，在石墨里面，卵石是，掉进去了，还通过这个底部排出去了，然后被回收了。