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。

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

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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？

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?

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抑或是，将一根已然磨损的绳子的一端。

Or have you been holding the end of a frayed rope.

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