So maybe there's some way to measure shininess.

所以也许有某种方法可以测量亮度。

Yellowness, roundness, and shininess don't capture what's distinct about these objects.

黄色、圆形和闪光并不能捕捉到这些物体的独特之处。

She rubbed at the shininess, thinking, He's terribly good-looking. No need for him to be shy like Bernard.

她抹着发光的地方想着，他漂亮得惊人，其实用不着像伯纳那样害羞。

A dull shininess of dark stain spread from her back along her side.

暗淡的黑色斑点从她的背部沿着她的身体蔓延开来。

But some researchers think that our love of shininess goes way deeper, and might even be an evolutionary means of finding water.

但一些研究人员认为，我们对闪亮的东西喜爱更深，甚至可能是一种寻找水的进化方式。

Their shininess is basically a built-in property, and there's a good reason why: it's a quirk of the weird way their electrons behave.

它们的光泽主要是一种内在属性，其电子行为的诡异方式有一种合理解释。