Just then a noise was audible outside. Footsteps rang on the metal tiling.

这个时候，外面传来了声响。板上发出脚步声。

You know, tiling, the process of putting tiles together so that they form a particular pattern.

所谓“铺砌”，就是铺上瓷砖，形成某种图案。

Those were the first tilings she would invent.

这些是她发明的第一批瓷砖。

Sort of yellow and pink flower tiling background.

JAD：有点黄色和粉红色的花朵平铺背景。

Hill then interested himself in practical ways of ditching and tiling.

希尔随后对挖沟和平铺的实用方法产生了兴趣。

They're also a great use for things like cement, candles, tiling.

它们也非常适用于水泥、蜡烛、瓷砖等物品。

And after some analysis, concluded that this was, in fact, Penrose tiling 500 years before Penrose.

经过一些分析后，发现这其实是早于彭罗斯 500 年的彭罗斯铺砌。

But back in the 1970s, Roger Penrose made a contribution to the world of mathematics and that part of mathematics known as tiling.

但回到 20 世纪 70 年代，罗杰·彭罗斯也为数学界做出了一个贡献，所在数学领域被称为“铺砌”。

Coins are used for all kinds of things—collecting, opulent floor tiling, throwing them at strangers on the street, and sometimes even buying stuff.

硬币可用于各种各样的事情——收集、华丽的板砖、在街上向陌生人扔硬币，有时甚至可以用来买西。

Moore saw that kind Mrs Wood had brought many good tilings from her own kitchen.

尔看到伍德太太从她自己的厨房里带来了许多好的瓷砖。

And the tiling that cured him was not a mustard plaster, but a horseman galloping down the road with a letter from Lee, saying he wanted to surrender.

而治愈他的瓦片也不是芥末膏， 而是一名骑马人带着李的一封信在路上疾驰， 他说他想投降。

In mathematics, this is a property known as aperiodicity and the notion of an aperiodic tile set using only two tiles was such a sensation, it was given the name Penrose tiling.

在数学中，该性被称为“非周期性”，仅由两种瓷砖组成的非周期性瓷砖组合轰动一时，以至于被命名为“彭罗斯铺砌”。

Among the steps the interior ministry promised with a new unit dedicated to finding the missing in greater efforts to tiling national database of human remains in the country’s morgues with the DNA of disappeared people.

在所有措施中，内政部承诺设立新的机构，致力于利用失踪人口的DNA来对政府停尸房中的遗体建立数据库。

There was a deeply inset front door framed in a mosaic of multi-colored pieces of tiling and a small flower garden in front, behind a low stucco wall topped by an iron railing which the beach moisture had begun to corrode.

有一扇嵌得很深的前门，镶着五颜六色的马赛克瓷砖，前面是一个小花园，后面是一堵低矮的灰泥墙，上面是铁栏杆，海滩的水分已经开始腐蚀了。