As he spoke he unwrapped the gray shawl and extricated a pretty little girl of about five years of age, whose dainty shoes and smart pink frock with its little linen apron, all bespoke a mother's care.

说他就打开了灰包袱，从里边抱出了一个美丽的小女孩。这个小女孩大约五岁左右，穿一精致的小鞋，漂亮的粉红上衣，麻布围嘴。从这些打扮可以看出，妈妈对她是爱护得无微不至的。

Tinder was made by charring or partly burning linen or cotton rags.

火绒由木炭或者部分可燃的亚麻布或棉布制成。

It's scribed on linen, making it the only known example of a book made that way. Interestingly after the Etruscans fell, their Roman conquerors would have destroyed the text if for not how it was preserved and hidden.

全书写在亚麻布上，这是世界上独一份此种材质的书，有趣的是，伊楚利亚人觉得罗马侵略者会毁掉它，如果这没有成真，它是如何被保存和隐藏的。

Jo in maroon, with a stiff, gentlemanly linen collar, and a white chrysanthemum or two for her only ornament.

穿衣衫，戴有一个男子气派的亚麻布硬领和一两朵白菊花作为她唯一的装饰。

She had an old grey linen apron hanging over her head and back: it was so wet, it certainly must have been raining.

她把灰麻布围裙披在头上和肩上。围裙是潮湿的，一定刚才是下过雨了。

Now slacks are typically made out of cotton or linen.

休闲裤通常由棉或亚麻布制成。

This is linen we've got here and wool. Wool takes colour really, really well.

这是亚麻布和羊毛。羊毛和这个颜非常非常合适。

He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray.

他拿出一堆衬衫，开始一件一件扔在我们面前，薄麻布衬衫、厚绸衬衫、细法兰绒衬衫都抖散了，五颜六摆满了一桌。

Jackets of burlap and plaster are placed around the fossils to protect them.

化石用粗麻布和石膏做成的外壳保护。

I was just trying to think of a place to store all of Nana's linens.

我正想该把祖母的亚麻布都存放在哪里。

Then there is the linen of the cloth it was wrapped in.

然后就要穿上亚麻布的围裙。

The shirt is made of linen and cotton.

这件衬衫是亚麻布和棉制成的。

Working upwards from the bottom, put burlap around the tree.

从下往上给树套上粗麻布。

The shirts and linen were marked but the mark was old and probably American.

衬衫和亚麻布上有标记，但标记很旧，可能是美国的。

And what with silk and cloth of gold, with snowy linen glancing through slashed sleeves, with silver mail shirts and jewelled sword-hilts, with gilt helmets and feathered bonnets, they were almost too bright to look at.

他们穿丝质或镶金的衣服，开叉的衣袖可以瞥到雪白的亚麻布，银的邮件衬衫，镶有宝石的剑柄，镀金的头盔，戴羽毛的帽子，闪亮到无法直视。

My schoolmistress has kept her promise which she made, and came today just as I was on the point of going out with my mother to carry some linen to a poor woman recommended by the Gazette.

我和母亲外出，带了些亚麻布给报上记载的穷妇人，正好我二年级时候的女先生，今日准约到家里来访我了。

But they're nothing new. Consider, for instance, a 4,500-year-old linen ball found in a child's tomb in Egypt or 3,600-year-old rubber balls from Central America-where the contest called for players to slam the ball with their hips.

但这并不是什么新鲜事。举个例子，想想在埃及儿童墓穴中发现的一个有4500年历史的亚麻布球，或者在中美洲发现的有3600年历史的橡皮球。在中美洲，比赛要求选手用臀部击球。

The sack had holes for his head and arms. On his head, he wore a metal container for a hat. He also used this pot for cooking his food.

麻布袋有几个洞可以露出他的头和四肢。他的头上戴一个金属容器，他还用这个容器做饭。

The final thing Mrs Crocombe needs is something all cooks keep in their belts at all times in the kitchen: a handy cloth, again made of absorbent linen and again very washable.

这条也是由非常吸湿的亚麻布制 也是非常耐洗这条也是由非常吸湿的亚麻布制 也是非常耐洗。

I genuinely spent all day yesterday clearing out cupboards and although annoyingly I find right at the back of the linen cupboard a present I bought the kids for Christmas

昨天我真的一整天都在清理橱柜虽然恼怒的是，我在亚麻布橱柜的后面发现了一件礼物，我给孩子们买了圣诞礼物。