It is a line drawing made out of aluminum wire that looks like a wavy net floating in mid-air.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The governing of a distress call is actually an extremely delicate high-wire act for any young organism from an evolutionary point of view.

事实上，发出求救信号,是极其危险的行为,从进化的角度看,对任何一个年轻的生物体。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You turn on your lamp, it happens pretty fast because current can flow very quickly through wire or through a charged - a solution of ions.

你打开灯 灯马上就亮了,电流可以迅速通过,电线或者带电荷的--电解质的溶液

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The supplies you will need are sterling silver wire,round-nosed pliers, flat-nosed pliers,flat-nosed pliers with a tip, and flush cutters."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

And in the last 20 years or So, this has been a huge and vibrant area of study where people are trying to wire up machines that can do brain-like things from components that look a lot like neurons and are wired up together as neurons are.

在过去的二十多年里,这是一个非常活跃的研究领域,研究者们试图应用,外表和连结方式均与神经元相类似的元件,制造出具备大脑功能的机器

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Among others,he experimented with the idea of telegraphy - sending messages over a wire by electricity.

VOA: special.2010.10.24

Each trawl is basically a rope strung with twenty-five lobster traps - wire cages,each the size of a big trunk.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The Black Satellites have battled through some adversity to reach the final, edging South Africa in extra time in the first elimination match, and surviving a pair of exciting 3-2 games that came down to the wire in the quarter and semifinals.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15