When it comes to sex, people's attitudes and behaviour are tightly bound up in “myriad threads of past and present.”

一谈到性，人态度和行为就被“过去和当下千万条线”紧紧束缚。

Tie two silk handkerchiefs together with a ribbon and cord.

用缎带和线把两条丝巾绑在一起。

I just draw little lines and nonsense really.

我只是画一些线，实际就是乱涂乱画。

We then cover it with a mask that has a pattern on top of it of fine lines and features that are going to make the phone work the way that we want it to.

然后我用一张膜把它盖住，膜上面有一些用来手机功能线和特性图案。

It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together.

因为正是这根脆弱线将我联结在一起。

They're measurable brain signals, translated through wires into a robot.

它是可以测量脑信号，它被翻译，通过线传入进入机械手臂。

Narrow wires cast smaller shadows, so more sunlight reaches the cell.

由于线投下阴影更小，所以更多日光可照到电池上。

Look at the threads in the calico.

仔看看棉布线。

His mouth tightened into a thin, angry line.

【tighten】他嘴抿成了一条线，一副生气样子。

He undid two screws, removed the reel of fine wire on the recorder's turntable, replaced it with a fresh reel, put the basket of fruit on the dressing table and went out and closed the door.

他拧下两颗螺丝， 取下录音机转盘上线盘，换上一盘新线盘， 将水果篮放在梳妆台上， 出去关上门。

If we look into the past, about 56 million years ago, we find a moment a thin line in the geologic record where the course of life on earth was altered.

如果我追溯到大约 5600 万年前，我会发现某个时刻某地质记录中某个线，地球上生命历程发生了变化。

The upper part of the skirt is decorated with patterns of blooming flowers and an auspicious phoenix made of golden thread, while the bottom part sports a lotus weaved from colorful thread.

裙子上部装饰盛开花朵图案，和一只由金线成吉祥凤凰，而底部则装饰着一朵由彩色线编织而成莲花。

The male flowers are on the tassel; the fine silk threads which surround the ear, and peep out from the end of the husks, are the female flowers.

而那种围绕着包谷生长并在包皮末端隐约露出丝一样线，就是雌花。

To do this, he surgically implanted thin wires into the animal's brain and connected those wires to a small amplifier on the top of its head.

为此，他通过手术将线植入动物大脑，并将这些线连接到动物头顶小型放大器上。

Then she passed it to her boy Henrico, who, with a little tool, made some long, fine lines to represent the mane.

然后她把它递给她儿子亨利科，亨利科用一个小工具画了几条长长线来表示鬃毛。

Neon and fluorescent lights use electricity to excite atoms that do the glowing, instead of heating up a thin wire.

霓虹灯和荧光灯用电来激发发光原子，而不是加热一根线。

" I stood behind the screen and pulled a thread, to make the eyes move and the mouth open."

“我站在屏风后面，拉动那根线，使得一双眼睛眨动着，并且张开着嘴巴。”

Leptotene is of very short duration and it's when their progressive condensation and coiling of chromosome fibers takes place.

线期持续时间很短，这是染色体纤维逐渐凝结和卷曲过程。

The ingredients were first turned into paste, and then squeezed out of a syringe in thin lines, forming layers.

先把这些原料成糊状，然后用注射器挤出线，构成蛋糕层次。

The waters of Hangzhou Bay and the Qiantang River meet on the horizon, forming a thin white line.

杭州湾海水与钱塘江在地平线相遇，形成一条白色线。