Both were interested in the idea of making a textile piece from silk of the golden orb spider.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

I went to see a rich girl I knew. In the morning she pulled a hundred-dollar bill out of her silk stocking and said, "You've been talking of a trip to Frisco. That being the case, take this and go have your fun." So all of my problems were solved.

我去看望我以前认识的一位有钱的姑娘,到了早上，她从丝绸钱袋里取出一张100元的支票说：,“既然你那么向往到圣弗兰西斯科的旅行，拿着这个去寻找你的快乐吧“，这下我的问题全部解决了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, not at a horribly advanced age, I would like to think, he went to Lyon, which was a capital of the Resistance because they have all these things called traboules in Lyon, was one reason--they're passageways where you'd keep the silk, raw silk dry.

他当时还没到混吃等死的地步,我个人觉得,于是他去了里昂,当时是抵抗组织的一个首都,因为里昂那有那种过道,这是一个原因--就是小胡同,能让丝绸,生丝保持干燥

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Fortunato was beautiful in his silk suit made of many colors: yellow, green, purple and red.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

In an empty corner, she replaced her cotton stockings for the new silk ones.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

In fact,their silk is even lighter and softer than silk from silkworms.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

She moved her toes around in the silk stockings.

VOA: special.2009.09.05