Raven on a wire. A gloomy portent, precariously perched.

电线上的乌鸦 似不祥之兆 不安地栖息在上。

It's often used to insulate power lines.

它经常用来隔离电线。

It can also prevent power lines themselves sparking fires.

还能防止电线本身引发火灾。

The wire has an extension of 50 feet.

这电线有50英尺长。

This wire, when activated, they contract.

这个电线被激活的时候会收缩。

The snake then wound itself round the wires.

于是蛇就缠住了几根电线。

Inside the machine is an intricate arrangement of wires.

机器里面是错综复杂地连接在一起的电线。

Sometimes the wire cutters weren't equal to the task of cutting the wire.

有时 丝钳并不仅仅用来割电线。

And even then he often used wire in his constructions.

即使在那个时候他就经常在自己的设计中使用电线。

When Hurricane Ida made landfall in southern Louisiana on Sunday and then moved inland, it ripped roofs off homes and buildings, flooded houses and roads, flattened trees, and knocked power lines all over the place.

飓风“艾达”周在路易斯安那南部登陆后，继续向内陆移动，它撕裂了房屋和建筑物的屋顶，淹没了房屋和道路，压平了树木，并把电线弄得到处都是。

As the electricity passes through the wires and circuits, it creates resistance.

当电流通过电线和电路时，就会产生电阻。

More wires joined the machine to the mast.

更多的电线再把机器和杆子连接起来。

The fire's out. The story is that the building's old wiring is what caused it.

火被扑灭了。他们说是房子里的旧电线引起的火灾。

But I can't wire the VCR so my children can watch their favorite video.

但是我不会给录像机接上电线，好让孩子们看他们喜欢的录像。

That rude reminder of the net's physicality sparked an interest in the infrastructure that makes the internet possible—the globe-spanning tangle of wires, cables, routers and data centres that most users take entirely for granted.

这个对网络实体“无礼”的提醒激起了他对互联网基础设施的兴趣，因为这些满世界绕在一起的电线、电缆、路由器和数据中心使得互联网成为可能，而大多数用户认为这些完全是理所当然。

Power lines can come down in strong winds, or trees can blow into power lines.

强风会吹倒电线，或让树倒向电线。

I think about all of the science that we did and the repairs that we made and, boy, did we make some good repairs -- we got it rewired.

我想到了我们所做的所有学研究和维修，我们做了一些很好的维修工作，更换这里的电线。

You can see that down power line over there sparking and you might see it explode any minute now because we rolled up on this thing about 30 minutes ago.

你可以看到那边的下行电线冒着火花，你现在随时都可能看到它爆炸，因为我们大约30分钟前就已经在这上面了。

As I've said before, the Commonwealth is like the wiring of a house and its people, our energy and our ideas are the current that runs through those wires.

正如我之前所说，英联邦就像一栋房子的电线，而我们的民，我们的能量和我们的想法是通过那些电线流动的电流。

The fact that a wire mother, or an rejecting mother or receiving a electric shocks for an attaching their mother, would cause more attachment, more love, more dependence, seems like a paradox.

事实是 无论电线母亲还是一直在排斥的母亲，或者说在跟随母亲的遭到的电击，都会产生更强的依恋 更多的爱以及更强的依赖感，听上去似乎是个矛盾。