Its scientists then study the detritus in cathedral-sized detectors.

后大型强子对撞机的科家在大教堂般大小的探测器内研究对撞形的碎屑。

They feed on detritus left behind by the falling waters.

它们以退潮留下的碎物为食。

But don't think Wrigley's-this detritus is black, sticky tar distilled from birch bark.

但不要以为那是箭牌口香糖——这种残余物是从桦树皮中蒸馏出来的黑色粘性焦油。

Beneath an overpass, piles of hay began to appear here and there amid the city detritus.

在一座立交桥下，城市垃圾中开始出的干草，在这里和那里。

This can affect how much fuel — branches, leaves and other detritus — there is to burn.

这会影响树枝、树叶和其它废弃物等燃料会燃烧的数量。

But one thing you can count on? A huge pile of paper trash, the detritus from unwrapping presents.

但有件事你可以确定。一大废纸——拆开礼物包装后留下的碎屑。

And there, surveying the detritus was author Mary Roach.

作家玛丽·罗奇 (Mary Roach) 正在那里勘察这些碎。

Outside, life in Manhattan continued, oblivious, fast-moving, ignoring the detritus that piled up in the gutter.

在外面，曼哈顿的生活还在继续，浑不觉，快节奏，无视排水沟中积的碎屑。

A huge pile of paper trash, the detritus from unwrapping presents.

一大纸垃圾，拆开礼物的碎屑。

In this process, sea cucumbers clean and oxygenate the seafloor by breaking down detritus and recycling nutrients.

在这个过程中，海参通过分解碎屑和回收养分来清洁海底并充氧。

Crabs, snails, and shrimp eat algae, mussels, barnacles, and salty mangrove detritus.

螃蟹、蜗牛和虾吃藻类、贻贝、藤壶和咸红树林碎屑。

But don't think Wrigley's—this detritus is black, sticky tar distilled from birch bark.

但不要以为是 Wrigley's——这种碎屑是从桦树皮中提取的黑色粘稠焦油。

According to one writer, Tamarisk was British jargon for, “sifting through the detritus of military exercises.”

根据一位作家的说法， 红柳是英国的行话，意思是“筛选军事演习的碎屑” 。

ANDREW ZOLLI: You're talking about stuff that's  the kind of natural detritus of human dramas.

安德鲁·佐利：你谈论的是人类戏剧的自碎片。

Fireworks can spray the earth with metallic detritus. Power tools can shave off flecks of metal they cut.

烟花可以用金属碎屑喷洒地球。电动工具可以刮掉它们切割的金属斑点。

Specimens occur here and there considerably below this limit, in basins specially protected from inwashing detritus, or exceptional in size.

标本在这里和那里出大大低于这个限制， 在特别保护免受冲洗碎屑的盆地中， 或者尺寸异常。

The business school has been described by two insiders as " a cancerous machine spewing out sick and irrelevant detritus" .

有两位内部人士称，商院是 “一台呕吐出恶心和无用渣滓的癌症机器”。

Squinting, she assures herself that it is not simply a bit of detritus, not a bottle cap or piece of broken glass.

她眯着眼睛，向自己保证这不仅仅是一点碎屑，也不是瓶盖或碎玻璃。

And when the wind blows, grass seeds are caught in here along with a lot of other detritus, all of which is rich in nitrogen.

起风的时候，牧草种子随着很多富含氮的其他碎屑一起被困在这里。

And when he finds some random detritus scattered in his fishes' grazing region, an alarm clock, a little picture, a wrench, he starts to daydream.

当他发一些随机碎屑散落在他的鱼的放牧区时，一个闹钟、一张小照片、一把扳手，他开始做白日梦。