Well, in the 1590s, a ball of yarn was called a clew, spelled c-l-e-w.

16世纪90年代，毛线球叫做线团，拼写是clew。

Tantripp would never have found the clew to this mystery.

坦特里普永远不会找到解开这谜团的线索。

At present it is most awkward. Neither hair, dress, nor conversation affords the slightest clew, and you are left to guess.

目前是最尴尬的。头发、衣服和谈话都不能提供丝毫线索，只能靠猜测了。

With regard to horses, distrust was your only clew.

关于马，不信任是你唯一的线索。

Mr. Brooke, meanwhile, having lost other clews, fell back on himself and his qualifications — always an appropriate graceful subject for a candidate.

与此同时，布鲁克先生在他线索后，又回到了自己和他的资历上——对于候选人来说，这始终是一恰当而优雅的话题。

I mention this in this place, of a fixed purpose, because it is the clew by which I am to be followed into my poor labyrinth.

我在这地方提到这一点， 有一固定的目的， 因为它是我被跟踪到我可怜的迷宫的裂缝。

I went away puzzled by what I had heard, and as much as ever at a loss to find the ruling clew in this maze of strange evidence.

我对所听到的感到，且一如既往地不知所措，无法在这奇怪的证据迷宫中找到主要线索。

I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clew, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse.

我打电话喝茶，服务员带着他的魔法钳子再次出现，以大约五十度的速度带来了茶点，但茶没有一瞥。

" I cannot precisely agree with you, " said Clifford, courteously bowing to the old gentleman, and at once taking up the clew of conversation which the latter had proffered.

“我不能完全同意你的看法，”克利福德说，彬彬有礼地向老先生鞠了一躬，立即开始了后者提供的谈话线索。

" But you called him in to attend on Fred, and I am sure that was a mercy, " said Mrs. Bulstrode, losing her clew in the intricacies of the subject.

“但你叫他来照顾弗雷德，我相信那是一种仁慈，”布尔斯特罗德夫人说，她对这错综复杂的话题了线索。

She was not in the habit of devising falsehoods, and if her statements were no direct clew to fact, why, they were not intended in that light — they were among her elegant accomplishments, intended to please.

她没有编造谎言的习惯， 如果她的陈述不是事实的直接线索， 那为什么，它们不是出于那目的——它们是她优雅的成就之一， 旨在取悦他人。

Thus, Hester Prynne, whose heart had lost its regular and healthy throb, wandered without a clew in the dark labyrinth of mind; now turned aside by an insurmountable precipice; now starting back from a deep chasm.

就这样， 海丝特·白兰的心脏了规律而健康的悸动，在黑暗的心灵迷宫中漫无目的地游荡；现在被不可逾越的悬崖挡在一边；现在从深深的鸿沟开始。

That is to say, he " found a clew." But you can't hang a " clew" for murder, and so after that detective had got through and gone home, Tom felt just as insecure as he was before.

也就是说，他“找到了线索”。但是你不能挂起谋杀的“线索”，所以在那侦探打通电话回家后，汤姆和以前一样没有安全感。

Past tenses were likewise still in a state of flux, and it was still acceptable to use clomb as well as climbed, clew as well as clawed, shove as well as shaved, digged as well as dug, etc.

过时同样也处于不断变化的状态， 使用 clomb 和 climbed、clew 和 clawed、shove 和 shaved、digged 和 dug 等仍然是可以接受的。

If a rock, or a rivulet, or a bit of earth harder than common, severed the links of the clew they followed, the true eye of the scout recovered them at a distance, and seldom rendered the delay of a single moment necessary.

如果一块岩石，或一条小溪，或一块比平常坚硬的土地，切断了他们所跟随的线索的联系，侦察员的真眼会在远处恢复他们，很少需要延迟片刻。