So check email in one solid block.

所以，你应该确立一个收发电子邮件的时间。

It's like an artist creating a sculpture out of a solid block of marble.

这就像一个艺术家在用一块坚硬的大理石做雕塑。

The amplifier sits on a housing crafted from glass and a solid block of Carrara.

放大器位于由玻璃和卡拉拉实心块制成的外壳上。

And then when that sort of reduced even further, it becomes jaggery, which is almost a solid block. A bit like in sugar or Palm sugar. - Yes!

然后当它进一步减少的时候，它就变成了粗糖，几乎是一个固体块。有点像糖或棕榈糖。- 是的！

When we think of English as one solid block of wood, what we're actually seeing is this lashed together raft made of spit, hope, and history.

当我们把英语想象成一块实心的木头时，我们实际上看到的是由唾沫、希望和历史组成的木筏。

What was once a solid block of downtime to fill watching several hours of TV was now an opportunity to do more of the things I loved to do.

曾经是一个坚实的休息时间来填补看几个小时的电视，现在是一个做更多我喜欢做的事情的机会。

She was not. Faced with a solid block—even the lovely curve of white marble that went to make “The Sail” in 1988—she needed to hack it to pieces, then rebuild it as she wanted.

她不是。面对坚硬的石块——即便是用来完成1988年“航行”的美丽白色大理石曲线——她需要把它劈成碎片，然后重建成她想要的样子。

And at first, the result will be a mess, but it's much easier to hone a mess into something great than to turn a solid block of marble into a masterpiece on the first pass.

一开始，结果会很糟，但把一团乱麻打磨成伟大的作品，要比一开始就把一整块坚硬的大理石就变成杰作要容易得多。