When it is cooked at a very high temperature, the glass pieces melt and take the shape of the clay form.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

So what I do is I take the blocks and I put them back together building a tower, in the very same shape, in the very same structure, the very same order as the tower my son had built.

所以我就拿出积木,重新搭了一座塔，不管是形状，结构还是，积木的排列顺序,都和我儿子搭的一模一样。

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The many pins take the shape of one of the longest rivers in the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06