Yes.I read recently about a fellow in Kansas with an enormous ball of twine.

没错 我最近得知堪萨斯州一个家伙 拿麻绳团了一个巨大的球。

Fishermen tie thin hemp string around the bird's neck to prevent them from swallowing fish.

渔民在鸬鹚的脖子上系上细麻绳，以防止它们吞下鱼。

A twine of hemp extends from the kite to a metal key.

麻绳从风筝延伸到金属钥匙。

Twine is the term for string that you use outside.

麻绳是你在外面使用的绳子。

In fact, by the early 1940's, even though steel cables were available, most ships in the United States Navy were not moored with steel cables; they were moored with Manila hemp ropes.

事实上，在20 世纪40 年代初期，尽管钢丝绳能买到，但是大多数的美国海军船停泊时用的不是钢丝绳；这些船用的是马尼拉麻绳。

To and fro I paced before this skeleton—brushed the vines aside—broke through the ribs—and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbors.

我在这具骨架前踱来踱去—把葡萄拨开—挤进肋骨里面去—拿着一团阿萨西斯麻绳，在它众多曲折、荫蔽的柱廊和凉亭之中转来转去，漫游了好一阵子。

In two weeks, with 42 workers, countless felled trees, 30 bundles of palm leaves, 16 rolls of bark and 5 kilometers of twine, the new home is complete.

两周的时间，42 个人砍倒了数不清的树，用了 30 捆棕榈叶，16 捆树皮和 5 千米长的麻绳，新家完工了。

If we pull a cotton thread or a piece of twine to pieces, we shall find that it also is made of fibres.

扯开一根棉线或者麻绳, 就会看到, 它们同样由纤维构成。

Exactly. I mean, that's for coir ropes, you know, some of those brown twine ropes are made with coir.

没错。我是说，那是用来做椰棕绳的，有些棕色的麻绳就是用椰棕绳做的。

Then I tie the ends of the twine together and hang the tomatoes in the kitchen.

再把麻绳在一起，最后把这些番茄挂在厨房里。

Some other items that you need in the garden is some twine.

你在花园里还需要的其他物品是一些麻绳。

" Take another pledge, old man, " said the Parsee, as his eyes lighted up like fire-flies in the gloom—" Hemp only can kill thee."

“再发一个誓，老头子，”拜火教徒说，他的双眼像萤火虫一样在黑暗中闪亮起来——“只有麻绳才能杀死你。”

In the twine and the thread the fibres lie side by side, and are spun or twisted together.

在麻绳和细线中, 纤维是并排的, 在一起或者说相互交织在一起。

You can tie up some plants with some twine.

你可以用麻绳把一些植物捆起来。

“Drive, drive in your nails, oh ye waves! to their uttermost heads drive them in! ye but strike a thing without a lid; and no coffin and no hearse can be mine: —and hemp only can kill me! Ha! ha! ”

“钉吧，钉你们的钉子吧，你们这些大浪！一直把钉头敲平为止！你们只不过在敲打一件没有盖子的东西；棺材和灵车都和我无关——只有麻绳才能杀得了我！哈！哈！”

" Stand by to sway me up! " cried Ahab, advancing to the hempen basket.

“准备把我吊上去！”亚哈叫道，一边向那只麻绳筐走去。

But soon my line was out; and following it back, I emerged from the opening where I entered.

但是，我的麻绳很快就放完了，我循着它退回来，从我进去时的那个开口出来。

Instead, they were rolled up like balls of twine.

相反，它们被卷成了像一团麻绳球的样子。

Classic kites use bamboo, rattan or some other strong, but flexible, wood for the spars; paper or light fabrics such as silk for the sails; and are flown on string or twine.

经典风筝使用竹子、条或其他一些坚固但灵活的木材作为翼梁;纸或轻质织物， 如帆的丝绸; 并用绳子或麻绳飞行。

We've found some jute rope that we thought would do well for this and are going to simply steep it with some boiling water, letting it sit there for a while.

我们找到了一些黄麻绳， 我们认为它可以很好地解决这个问题， 并且只需用一些沸水将其浸泡，让它在那里静置一段时间。