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。

She got the seed, the bread, and the ball of string.

她买了草籽、面包和线团。

Bread for Mother. String for Grandfather. Pins for Grandmother.

给妈妈买面包。给爷爷买线团。给奶奶买别针。

" Here is some money, " he said. " Please get me a ball of string."

“给你些钱”，他说。“请帮我买一个线团”。

I told her there was no spider, and that it was just a tiny ball of thread.

我跟她说，那不是蜘蛛，只是一个小线团，拖着一根线。

I found a tiny black ball of thread on the carpet, and I told Manny it was a spider.

地毯上有一个黑色小线团，还拖着线头。我唬曼尼说那是蜘蛛。

He and George disentangled the string and separated five Extendable Ears from each other. Fred and George handed them around.

他和乔治打开线团，分开五个伸缩耳分给大。

As she started again, she said, " Seed for Father. Bread for Mother. String for Grandfather."

出发时候，她自言自语说，“给爸爸买草籽。给妈妈买面包。给爷爷买线团”。

And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.

乔使劲地抖搂那蓝色，以致编针像响板那样嗒嗒作响，而线团直滚过房间。

'You really mustn't play with the wool, you know. It will take me so long to roll the ball up again.

“你真不应该追着线团儿玩。要把它绕好，我要费多大功夫呀！

I'm gonna bat her around like a ball of foil.

我要像打线团一样打得她团团转。

" I know I have it somewhere, " said Fleecy Flock helplessly, jumbling up the skeins and bundles.

“我知道我在某个地方找到了它， ” Fleecy Flock 无助地说， 把线团和包裹弄得乱七八糟。

She drew out one of the knitting needles, stuck it into the ball of thread and stocking, and went out into the corridor.

她抽出一根织针， 扎进线团和子里， 然后走到走廊里。

We returned from our visit to The Haven with the hope that one free end of this tangled skein was already in our hands.

我们结束了对避风港访问， 希望这根缠结线团一端已经在我们手中。

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough; but complexity precedes evolution.

历史是一团纠结线团， 随时都可以拉起来， 解得够多就断了； 但复杂性先于进化。

Hagrid's coat seemed to be made of nothing but pockets — bunches of keys, slug pellets, balls of string, mint humbugs, teabags...finally, Harry pulled out a handful of strange-looking coins.

海格外衣上面除了口袋，大概就没有别什么了—— 口袋里装着成串钥匙、小弹丸、线团、薄荷硬糖、茶袋… … 最后，哈利终于掏出了一把稀奇古怪硬币。

Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

每一次失误就像一团正在小心收紧线团掉落； 一次失误所造成损失远大于多次转弯会再次缠绕。

" Good girl! You deserve to go, and I'm sure you will some day, " said Aunt March, with an approving pat on the head, as Amy picked up her ball for her.

“好姑娘！你是有资格去，而且我确信你总有一天会去成，”马奇叔婆说，艾米帮她把线团捡起来时候，她赞许地拍了拍艾米头。

After breakfast, when Grandet had gone to his fields and his other occupations, Charles remained with the mother and daughter, finding an unknown pleasure in holding their skeins, in watching them at work, in listening to their quiet prattle.

早饭后，葛朗台下地干活去了，夏尔留在母女俩身边，握着她们线团，看着她们干活，听她们轻声细语，这让夏尔感到莫名愉悦。