Pop into Maison des Canuts where you'll learn about the invention by Joseph Marie Jacquard of using perforated cards to produce patterned fabrics.

走进纺织工人之家，你就会了解当年约瑟夫·玛丽·雅卡尔是如何使用穿了孔卡片来制作出有丝织品。

The company modified the design of the automobile in order to make it more attractive.

这家公司修改这种汽车以使它更具吸引力。

The design of Art. No. 123 hasn't much appeal for us.

第123号货对我们没什么吸引力。

Certain stars, like our sun, emit light in characteristic patterns, depending on their atomic makeup.

某些恒星，比如太阳，根据自身组成元素 发出光在光谱上有特征性。

The house had been built according to no architectural plan whatever, with extra rooms added where and when it seemed convenient, but, with Ellen's care and attention, it gained a charm that made up for its lack of design.

农场住宅不是按照什么设计建筑，有许多房子是根据需要和方便在不同地方、不同时间陆续增添。不过，由于爱伦关注和照官，它形成了自己迷人之处，从而弥补了设计上欠。

In drawing up plans for a ship meant to navigate underwater, I wanted it, when floating on the waves, to lie nine-tenths below the surface and to emerge only one-tenth.

当我绘制这只在水底航行用船时，我要求它吃水部分占十分之九，浮出部分只占十分之一，这它就可以在水中保持平衡。

I know someone who always cuts sketches out from newspapers of model clothes that she would like to buy if she had the money.

我认识一个人，她总喜欢从报纸上剪下流行服装，等以后有钱时去买服装。

And then there are the huge designs spread across someone's back, chest or arm - like footballer David Beckham has.

大量设计遍布在人们背部、胸部或手臂上，就像足球运动员大卫·贝克汉。

Architecture has always been a collaborative exercise, so it's not surprising to find that virtually all the drawings for the baldachino are by Borromini.

建筑通常是集体合作结晶，所以毫不意外，事实上祭坛华盖所有设计者都是巴洛尼尼。

What it's doing is it's projecting a pattern onto the subject, and then cameras are actually tracking the way that that projection deforms.

3D扫描技术工作时会将所捕捉到变成实际物体, 然后相机实际上是追踪投射物变化模式。

This paper is decorated with various fancies; and made so ornamental that the women have admitted the fashion without perceiving the design.

这张纸绘以色彩斑斓幻想，使其如此富有装饰性，以至于妇女不必理解，就能欣然接受时尚。

The diagram upon it appears to be a plan of part of a large building with numerous halls, corridors, and passages.

纸上似乎是一所大建筑一部分，其中有许多大房间、走廊和甬道。

There were ceramic pots inscribed with various designs, a warthog's tusk, the skeletons of a toad and a python.

有雕刻了各种陶盆、一根疣猪獠牙，还有一只蟾蜍和一条蟒蛇骸骨。

The current 50-star flag has been the official design, or the one approved by the U.S. government, since 1960.

目前50颗星国旗一直是正式，或是自1960年以来，由美国政府批准。

But it could be tinted and patterned to mimic more expensive materials like coral, tortoiseshell, amber, and mother-of-pearl.

但赛璐珞可以上色，加印 龟甲、琥珀及珍珠母。龟甲、琥珀及珍珠母。

While we're talking about pens and pencils what about having to always read an upside-down decal?

当我们说到钢笔和铅笔时候，为什么要一直倒着看它们上面呢？

Yes, Rob. And tattoos are a good way to be creative – trying out different designs and colours - it's a good way to express yourself.

是，罗伯。纹身是一种很好创新方式——尝试不同设计和颜色——这是表现自我一种很好方式。

Your correspondent lost count of how many people she saw wearing belts with pictures of lobsters.

记者数不清她看到有多少人系着印有龙虾皮带。

But if we see that pattern at longer, redder, wavelengths than we expect, we know the object is actually moving away from us, its light has been stretched by the expanding universe.

但是如果我们看到光谱，比我们已知波长更长，或者更偏向红色，这说明物体在远离我们物体发出光被膨胀着宇宙拉伸。

The first design change was made in 1795, when two stars were added for the two new states of Kentucky and Vermont.

第一次对国旗进行修改是在1795年，当加入两颗代表着肯塔基和佛蒙特这两个新生州星星时候。