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，他决定通过精象牙来" 塑造" 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.

流动冰的作用，无论是以河流般的冰川还是广的地幔的形式，尤其是它在塑造地球方面所起的作用，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.

后，在光秃秃的、毫无特色的、被火烧黑的脉，冰川开始爬行，从顶到大海覆盖着一层冰。后经过无限深思熟虑，重新该系列的工作继续进行。