How do you take plant fibers that individually you could break with your hands and turn them into a rope that's strong enough to moor a ship that weighs thousands of tons?

你如何将植物纤维一个个地用手折断，然后把它们变成一根足够结实到可以系住一艘重达数千吨的船的绳子呢？

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A rope from the second vessel was secured around the shark's tail, but repeated efforts to tow the fish into the water failed.

第二艘船上的一根绳子系在鲨鱼的尾巴上，但多次将鱼拖进水里的努力都失败了。

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They had twisted the sheets into a rope and escaped by climbing down it.

他们把床单绞成绳子，缘绳而下逃走了。

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Suppose I had a rope, that stretched from that into the room, all the way across-- to this end of the room.

假设我有一根绳子，从屋子的这一端，一直伸展到-,屋子的这一端。

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SAINT-JEROME, Quebec (AP) Two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daring daylight escape Sunday from a jail northwest of Montreal, authorities said.

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Southeast Asia should never again let itself fall prey to outside forces seeking to bully its countries and rope them into contending blocs.

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One reason the BRICs matter is that the world's most important country thinks they do, and is willing to rope them into decision-making.

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