A textile is a piece of cloth that has been formed by weaving, knitting,pressing or knotting together individual pieces of fiber.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

But, he built a scintillation screen, which is essentially a cloth fiber that was covered with zinc sulfide.

他做的闪烁计数器，本质上是在纤维布上,覆盖硫化锌。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They might be a couple of inches, or most footers so-- and so no single fiber stretches all the way across the room.

它们可能就几英寸,或者最多几英尺-,所以没有一根纤维可以单独,横跨整间屋子。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He learned to get light to go far enough down a glass fiber to pass on signals.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

Because it came from optics, you know, rays of sunlight and so on And in fact, even when we first started pulling synthetic fiber, the first synthetic fiber cellulose was referred to as ray on, because it looked like a ray that was being pulled.

因为它源自光学，比如太阳光线等等,实际上，及时当我们首先开始抽出,人造纤维，第一根人造纤维的纤维素,叫做光线，因为那条在被抽出的纤维素,看起来像是一道光线。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And,it gives a good example of the endless creative possibilities of fiber art.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Fiber is related at a risk for some diseases, particularly some cancers, and therefore the low fiber intake that we have now compared to what our ancestors had is a factor.

纤维素可以抵抗一些疾病,尤其是某些癌症,相对古人来说我们摄入量偏低,因此我们对一些癌症的抵抗能力就低

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Conventional colonoscopy is performed with a long, flexible tube called a colonoscope that is equipped with a tiny fiber-optic video camera and light at the end.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07