It's a metamorphic rock, which means it becomes something new under extreme heat and pressure without melting.

这是一种变质岩，这意味着它在极端高温和高压下会变成新的东西而不会融化。

And baby bees do their change locked inside tiny hexagonal prison cells like some weird dystopian metamorphic " Matrix."

小蜜蜂们把自己锁在狭小的六边形牢房里，就像一个怪异的反乌托邦蜕变“黑客帝国”。

Ultimately, if we could drill deep enough, we'd actually find metamorphic rocks on every planet, says McSween.

最终，如果我们能钻得足够深，我们就能在每个星球上找到变质岩，麦克斯温说。

But on other worlds, it's more typical to find metamorphic rocks forged in the split-second shock of a meteoroid impact.

但在其他星球上，更常见的是在流星体撞击的瞬间震荡中形成的变质岩石。

The lowest layers of metamorphic and volcanic rocks, he called the Primary layer.

变质岩和火山岩的最低层 ，他称之为初级层。

For instance, instead of hardening their skin into a protective chrysalis, moths do spin their metamorphic sleeping sack out of silk.

例如，飞蛾不是将皮肤硬化成保护性蛹，而是用丝纺出变质的睡袋。

The new metamorphic rocks are typically harder, more compact, and are more resistant to weathering.

新的变质岩通常更硬、 更致密，并且更耐风化。

Like igneous rocks could skip being sedimentary rocks and go directly to being a metamorphic rock.

就像火成岩可以跳过 沉积岩，直接变成变质岩。

Geochemists at Columbia University found a lode of quartzite, a metamorphic rock formed from sandstone, on the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan.

哥伦比亚大学的地球化学家在印度洋昂儒昂岛上发现了一个石英岩矿脉，石英岩是由砂岩形成的变质岩。

Ehlmann and her team previously identified metamorphic rocks on Mars that she thinks could have formed when hot groundwater circulated through rocks buried underground, a relatively low-temperature, low-pressure process.

埃尔曼和她的团队之前在火星上发现了变质岩，她认为这些变质岩可能是热地下水在埋藏于地下的岩石中循环时形成的，这是一个相对低温、低压的过程。

Their rhizomes are set in black mould accumulated in hollows of the metamorphic slates beside the pools, where they are well watered without being subjected to flood action.

它们的根茎长在黑色的霉菌中，这些霉菌堆积在水池旁边的变质板岩的空洞中，在那里它们得到了很好的浇水，没有受到洪水的影响。

The third type of rock are the metamorphics, and the metamorphics can either be sedimentary or igneous rocks that have been changed by heat and pressure deep underground.

第三种岩石是变质岩，变质岩可以是沉积岩或火成岩，它们在地下深处被热量和压力改变。

The rock here is black metamorphic slate, worn into smooth knobs in the stream channels, contrasting with the fine gray and white cascading water as it glides and glances and falls in lace-like sheets and braided overfolding currents.

这里的岩石是黑色变质板岩，在河道中磨损成光滑的旋钮，与精细的灰色和白色瀑布形成鲜明对比，因为它在花边般的床单和编织的折叠电流中滑动、扫视和落下。