The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.

电缆大线样粗，而杆的长度大小与织样。

I have seen him do the summerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no thicker than a common packthread in England.

我曾多次看起做夏秋，在个固定在绳子上的挖沟机上，绳子不比英国的普通装线粗。