Instead of talking to and meeting women, he decides to 'make' his ideal woman by carefully and delicately sculpturing an ivory statue.

与其和女人交谈，他决定通过精心雕刻象牙来" " 他理想中的女人。

The action of flowing ice, whether in the form of river-like glaciers or broad mantles, especially the part it played in sculpturing the earth, is as yet but little understood.

流动冰的，论是以河流般的冰川还是广的地幔的形式，尤其是它地球方面所起的，至今仍知之甚少。

Then over the bald, featureless, fire-blackened mountains, glaciers began to crawl, covering them from the summits to the sea with a mantle of ice; and then with infinite deliberation the work went on of sculpturing the range anew.

然后，光秃秃的、毫特色的、被火烧黑的山脉上，冰川开始爬行，从山顶到大海覆盖着一层冰。然后经过限深思熟虑，重新雕刻该系列的工继续进行。