This is dental floss. But the big difference is it's made out of silk instead of plastic.

这是牙线。但是它和牙膏筒最大的区别是它不是用塑料制成的，而是用丝状物制成的。

Depending on the shape of the magnetic field, the auroras can form spectacular multicolored ribbons and sheets.

根据磁场的形状，极光可以形成色彩斑斓的丝状或片状。

Some have bright rims as they push into material between the stars; others form complex webs of filaments.

当它们挤入恒星之间的物质时，有些有着明亮的圆轮；其他的则形成复杂的丝状网。

The first lamp that he made had a cotton thread for a filament, and it could burn for only forty-five hours.

他制造的第一盏灯中是一根细丝状的棉线，只能燃烧四十五小时。

So now we're going to julienne, very finely slice the pumpkin skins.

所以在我们要将南瓜皮切成非常细的丝状。

It's been found with preserved quill-like filaments growing from its tail.

它被部长有保存完好的类似羽毛的丝状物。

Like those stringy things I sometimes find in my orange juice?

就像我有时在橙汁里的那种丝状物？

Inside the body, all of the silk glands have liquid protein in them.

在体内, 所有的丝状腺体都有液态蛋白质。

Have a close-up look at the nucleus though, what is this weird filamentary structure?

仔细看看细胞核，这个奇怪的丝状结构是什么？

25. For example, the pharmaceutical industry grows filamentous fungi in large quantities in the lab.

举个例子来说，制药行业在实验室中培育了大量的丝状真菌。

There's also a bright angled line that appears to be a gas filament from the nebula itself.

还有一条明亮的斜线，看起来是来自星云本身的气体丝状物。

But candida also exists as a filamentous mold with its little hyphae or sometimes pseudohyphae branching out.

但念珠菌同样以丝状霉菌的形式存在，其细小的菌丝或有时是假菌丝会分叉延伸。

The thready mass was the hair of the head—long and straggling, showing that the head was a woman's.

那团丝状的东西就是头上的头——又长又乱， 表明这是一个女人的头。

The thread-like fibers we see — thinner than a human hair — are the remains of those dense, dried out walls of cellulose.

我们看到的丝状纤维（比人类毛还要细）是那些紧实干燥的纤维素壁（原细胞壁）的残留物。

Because the substance is composed of mucus and reinforced with numerous superfine and strong silk-like fibers, the slime is incredibly soft yet tough.

这是因为该物质是由黏液组成的，并以无数超细和强有力的丝状纤维加固，因此这种黏液非常柔软，但又非常坚韧。

This filamentous approach to acoustics could someday change the way we make microphones… and take webcasting to a whole new level.

霍普金：这种采用丝状方法的声学技术有朝一日可能会改变我们制造麦克风的方式… … 并将网络广播提升到一个全新的水平。

And what you do is you take some plastic in the form of a filament, and you extrude it through a very, very hot nozzle.

你要做的就是拿一些长丝状的塑料，通过一个非常非常热的喷嘴把它挤出。

But fossils from China suggest the precursors of feathers-simple, filament-like structures possibly used for insulation-evolved in land-lubbing dinosaurs and were only later adapted for flight.

中国出土的化石表明羽毛的前身呈简易的丝状结构，可能具有隔离热量的功用，这些简易丝状羽毛在陆恐龙身上不断进化，直至后来才具备了飞行功能。

Because these whispy little filaments can float freely in the breeze, they're great at sensing the air currents that comprise sound waves.

霍普金：因为这些细小的丝状物可以在微风中自由飘浮，它们非常擅长感知构成声波的气流。

24. In fact, we can actually use the cell walls of filamentous fungi as a filter, even after the fungi are dead.

事实上，我们还可以把丝状真菌的细胞壁用作过滤器，即使在这些真菌死后。