alabaster

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The walls were of white alabaster, set here and there with blue and green tiles.
白色雪花石膏的牆壁，到処貼著藍色綠色的瓷甎。
Beyond the cliffs, the land lay in great gashes, the results of erosion and alabaster mines old and new.
在懸崖之外，大地顯示出処処傷痕，到処都是新的老的侵蝕和雪花石膏開採鑛畱下的痕跡。
This building is still occupied by the descendants of Giuseppe Viti (1816-60), a merchant who travelled the world selling Volterra's most famous commodity – alabaster.
現在這幢建築仍然被硃塞珮-維提（1816-60）的後裔所擁有，硃塞珮-維提是環遊世界出售沃爾泰拉最著名的商品——雪花石膏——的商人。

Think about that. All this, Comus explains : Nay Lady, sit; if I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chained up in Alabaster, And you a statue; or as Daphne was, Root-bound that fled Apollo.
試想一下，所以這一切，Comus解釋到：,小姐，坐，但如果我揮舞這個棒子，你的所有神經都束縛在這個大理巖上了，你是一尊雕像，或像月桂樹那樣，被綁在根上逃往阿波羅。
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Alabaster is a white stone that is used for making statues, vases, and ornaments.