Ten-second trivia: What sport are you playing if your teammate says pass me the truncated icosahedron?

如果你的队友说“把截短的二十面体递给我”，你在做什么运动？

In geometry, a soccer ball is considered a truncated icosahedron because it consists of 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal surfaces.

在几何学中，一个足球被认为是一个截断的二十面体，因为它由20个六边形和12个五边形组成。

Everywhere around us we saw truncated cones, formerly so many fiery mouths.

我们周围的任何地方都看到截断的锥体， 以前有很多火热的嘴巴。

Had his name been truncated to Edward Moore, his opponent chided, his candidacy would be a joke.

如果他的名字被截断为爱德华摩尔，他的对手斥责，他的候选资格将是一个笑话。

There is a sense of mourning in the work, particularly with a truncated weeping willow trees gathering us up in their embrace.

作品中有一种哀痛的感觉，尤其是一棵被截断的垂柳将我们聚集在它们的怀抱中。

But he saw in the king the apex of a pyramid which, if truncated, would seen odd, and perhaps even ludicrous.

但他在国王身上看到了金字塔的顶端，如果将其截断，会显得很奇怪，甚至可能很可笑。

The sight of that abrupt and truncated animal padding softly across the quadrangle changed by some fluke of the subconscious intelligence the emotional light for me.

那只突然而截短的动物轻轻地穿过四边形的景象被潜意识智慧的某种侥幸改变了我的情绪之光。

Among the truncated leaves the passion flower opens pale lavender rosettes, fringed and marked at the center with the stigmata, and with stamens indicating the number of the apostles.

在被截断的叶子中， 西番莲开出淡紫色的莲座丛， 中间有流苏并标有柱头， 雄蕊指示使徒的数量。

Tommy, with true brotherly sympathy, was amusing himself by turning Dolly's skirt over her bald head and exhibiting her truncated body to the general scorn—an indignity which cut Totty to the heart.

汤米怀着真正的兄弟般的同情，把多莉的裙子翻到她的光头上，把她瘦削的身体展示给普遍的蔑视——这种侮辱刺痛了托蒂的心，以此自娱自乐。

At dinner that night he decided that it must inevitably be a truncated visit: about his own country Hosain seemed to have observed only that there were many mountains and some goats and herders of goats.

那天晚上吃晚饭时，他断定这肯定是一次被截断的访问：关于他自己的国家，侯赛因似乎只注意到那里有许多山和一些山羊和山羊牧民。