INSIDERBLOCK OF THE WEEK: QUARTZ
本周方块：下界石英块

A quintessential cube for keeping your home secure!
保卫家园的重要方块！


Oh, come on . You're not fooling anyone. We know you didn't build your palace out of Nether Quartz because you think it looks good – you're just humblebragging that you've been to the Nether, mined the place rotten for Nether Quartz ore, and then got back alive. Alive and smug . Now we have to live next to your magnificent palace made of quartz in our hut made of dirt. Grumble grumble...
哦天，得了吧。所有人都知道了，你搭建了这样一座宫殿的目的才不是出于美观呢 —— 你只是在四处夸耀自己曾去了下界，挖空了那边烂大街的下界石英，还活着回来了。这确实是你吹嘘的资本。所以现在我们不得不在你那精致的石英宫殿旁随便建个泥土小屋住下。呜呜呜……

Ah, but not all of you are pathetic show-offs. Some of you use Nether Quartz to craft complex gizmos like redstone comparators and daylight sensors. We're big fans of the daylight sensor, seeing as it can sense when night falls and automatically close your doors, stopping mobs from getting in. Very handy if you're crafting in your basement and lose track of time!
啊，并不是说所有人都是这种可悲的自大狂。有些人会使用下界石英合成一些复杂的小玩意，例如红石比较器和阳光传感器。其中阳光传感器深受大家喜爱，因为它可以检测到夜幕的降临，然后关上大门，阻止任何妄图侵入的生物。这在你投身于建设基地的工作而没时间关注周围情况时会非常有用！

In fact, real quartz is one of the Earth's most useful minerals. Some people even believe quartz has magical healing powers! But those idiots are wrong, so let's move on. A real property of quartz is that its crystals can vibrate at specific frequencies. So what? So everything! These frequencies are so specific thatclever science-types can use quartz in something called a 'crystal oscillator', which keeps the vibrations of the crystal consistent, making them reliably keep time in quartz clocks and watches.
事实上，现实里的石英是地球上最有用的矿物之一。一些人甚至认为石英拥有神奇的治愈能力！但别理会那些胡思乱想的蠢蛋们，让我们继续。石英的性质之一，是它能以固定的频率振动。你说这又如何？这可意义非凡！这一特定频率的振动性质可利用在一种名为“晶体振荡器”的元件上，让它以固定的频率进行晶振，从而稳定地在石英钟表里进行计时。


A beautiful photo of some smoky quartz! Wouldn't it be nice if all our 'Block of the Week' articles contained photos this pretty? Well next week it's 'slime' so don't count on it. Photo by JJ Harrison.
一张有关烟熏石英的精美图片！要是我们每一篇《本周方块》文章都有这样的图片该有多好。好吧，首先下周是“史莱姆”所以不行。图片由 JJ Harrison 摄制。

Here's the recipe for crafting your very own daylight sensor! All you're going to need is three glass blocks (easy!), three wood planks (even easier!) and three Nether Quartz (you're doomed!)
这是阳光传感器的合成配方！你需要的只有三个玻璃（很简单！）、三个木板（更简单！）和三个下界石英（糟透了！）

An example of a Crystal Oscillator circuit! Probably! Look, we're not smart enough to figure out how this sciency stuff works. Most days, we can barely figure out how to tie our own shoelaces.
一个晶体振荡器电路的例子！也许吧！你得知道，很多时候我们没有聪明到完全搞懂这些充满着科学的小玩意。更多情况下我们甚至不知道怎样去系鞋带。
Quartz crystals are used in all sorts of electronics you use every day. Used a watch to tell the time today? Thank quartz! Watched television? Thank quartz again! Played Minecraft on your phone? Thank Quartz! Successfully bought a bag of quartz? Thank quartz! Been attacked by a madman with a block of quartz? Oh no, that's awful. We guess you probably don't like quartz much then but please keep in mind that's like the first bad thing to ever be associated with quartz in the history of time . Time we can tell with pin-point accuracy thanks to quartz!
你每天使用的电子元件有很多都使用了石英水晶。在用手表看现在的时间？这是石英的功劳！在看电视？也是石英的功劳！在你的手机上游玩 Minecraft 吗？是石英的功劳！买了一大包石英吗？还是石英的功劳！然后被一名拿着石英方块的疯子追杀？哦不，这太糟糕了。我猜你可能不那么喜欢石英了，但请你相信这可能只是有史以来关乎石英的第一件坏事。你知道吗，我们能够得到现在的准确时间，依靠的正是石英！

We love quartz blocks so much, we used all of ours to build daylight sensors, which is the only reason we didn't have any left over to make our hut look good and had to build it out of dirt blocks. Laugh it up in your Nether Quartz palace for now, neighbour. You won't be laughing when night falls and you see we left your front doors open...
我们就是如此的石英方块，因此把它们都拿去合成了阳光传感器，这才是我们完全没有多余的石英可以用来装饰房屋的唯一原因。最后要对好邻居说的是，尽管在你的下界石英宫殿里放声大笑吧。等晚上我们把你前门打开时，你是否还能笑出声呢……




【震天 译自官网 2017 年 03 月 03 日发布的 Block of the Week: Quartz；原作者 Tom Stone】
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