stone by stone

基本解释

If you remove stone by stone, even a mountain will be levelled.
一块一块把石移，高山也可变平地。愚公移山。。
Stone by stone, craftsmen build a medieval-style castle with only horses to cart the rock, without power tools.
工匠们将用石头一块块地搭建出一座中世纪风格的城堡，且只用马车来搬运石头，不使用其它任何现代化工具。
Level the city stone by stone to an extinct waste.
一块石头一块石头地夷平该市，使它成为一片没有人烟的荒原。
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But on this day at the fort, painstakingly reconstructed stone by stone by Spanish archaeologists with the help of the local population, few visitors are to be found.
who was refuted by Dr. Johnson who kicked a stone and leaped away in terrible pain saying, "I refute it thus."
约翰逊先生反对理想主义者，他踢开一块石头,跳开到很远，一副痛苦不堪的样子，说，“我这样来反驳“
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And so--like the chainlet--it takes that stone-like distillation of life, turning rain to stone, turning life to the representation by your tormentor.
就像那条链子，它提取了,生命中如磐石般不朽的精华，将雨水变成石头，将生命变成,折磨你的人笔下的画像。
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