As the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinking and cracking into long columns.

随着几个世纪的过去，岩石冷却和硬化，收缩并开裂成长柱。

So these are actually long columns of bone with a vascular canal.

所以这些实际上是带有血管管的长骨柱。

He was thunderstruck to discover that she could swiftly add a long column of figures in her head when he needed a pencil and paper for more than three figures.

他发现她能用心算的方法很快将一长串数字加起来，而他对三位以上的数字都得用笔才能计算。

She said her lumber was better and cheaper too, and to prove it she ran up a long column of figures in her head and gave him an estimate then and there.

她说她的木料质量更好又便宜，为了证实这一点，她在头脑里列出一连串数字，当即给他作了估算。

His mind was made up that he was not going to spend all of his days, like James and Andrew, in bargaining, or all his nights, by candlelight, over long columns of figures.

他已下定决心，不要像詹姆斯和安德鲁那样把所有的白天都花费在讨价还价上，或者把所有的夜晚都用来对着灯光检查账目。

Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.  The moon shone peacefully.

半个天堂是纯净无暇的：云层现在顺风而行，已经转向西边，正排成长长的银色柱状向东飘去。月亮平静地照耀着。

Mr. Beebe looked at the sobbing girl. He was very quiet, and his white face, with its ruddy whiskers, seemed suddenly inhuman. A long black column, he stood and awaited her reply.

毕比先生看着哭泣的女孩。他很安静，他那张白皙的脸，红润的胡须，突然变得不像人了。一条长长的黑色柱子，他站在那里等待她的回答。

The current also served to drift them apart; a long bent column was soon formed, and in a few minutes all were over and began baaing and feeding as if nothing out of the common had happened.

水流也把他们分开了。 很快就形成了一个长长的弯曲的柱子， 几分钟后一切都结束了， 开始咩咩叫和吃东西， 好像没有发生任何不寻常的事情一样。

He was there and he was gone again, his silvery armor obscured by the trees once more. Others came behind him, long columns of them, knights and sworn swords and freeriders, three quarters of the Lannister horse.

他甫一出现，便又消失，银色铠甲再度被树丛遮蔽。长长的队伍跟在他身后，包括骑士、誓言骑士和自由骑手，大概占兰尼斯特军骑兵总数的四分之三。

He slept deep and awoke to a slow mournful march passing his window. It was a long column of men in uniform, wearing the familiar helmet of 1914, thick men in frock coats and silk hats, burghers, aristocrats, plain men.

他睡得很沉，醒来时听到窗外传来一阵缓慢而悲伤的行军声。这是一长列穿着制服的人，戴着熟悉的 1914 年头盔，身着长礼服、头戴丝质帽子的粗壮男人、市民、贵族、普通人。