Venetian merchants traded extensively in silk and encouraged silk growers to settle in Italy.
威尼斯商人大量买卖丝绸，并鼓励丝绸种植者在意大利定居。
Government officials were paid their salary in silk, and farmers paid their taxes in grain and silk.
政府官员的工资是用丝绸支付的，而农民的赋税用粮食和丝绸支付。
The prevalence of several silkworm diseases has led to a decline in silk products. Especially in France, the silk industry has never recovered.
几种桑蚕疾病的流行导致了丝绸产品下滑。特别在法国，丝绸工业再也没有恢复。
Suddenly, it covers its food in silk.
突然，它用丝覆盖住食物。
Zhang's journey to the West helped develop international trade, especially in silk, between China and the West.
张骞的西行促进了中国和西方之间的国际贸易，尤其是丝绸贸易的发展。
Andalusia in southern Spain was Europe's main silk-producing centre in the tenth century.
西班牙南部的安达卢西亚是10世纪欧洲主要的丝绸生产中心。
By the thirteenth century, however, Italy had become Europe's leader in silk production and export.
然而到了13世纪，意大利已经成为欧洲丝绸生产和出口的领先者。
The animal often lives in silk-cotton trees, which bear silk-like fruit pods that match the anteater's fur coat.
这种动物通常生活在木棉树上，它们结出的像丝一样的果荚与食蚁兽的毛皮相匹配。
An illustration of spinning, winding, doubling and throwing machines used in silk textile production in England, 1858.
1858年，英国丝绸纺织生产中使用的纺纱机，绕线机，并纱机和捻丝机插图。
Some 750 people, primarily women, are benefiting from this enterprise in silk worm rearing, cocoon production and silk production.
大约750人(主要是妇女)从养蚕、蚕茧生产和蚕丝生产中获得了收益。
She took from the back of her head, where it had been safely tied, a small package, not larger than a silver dollar, sewed up in silk.
这个不如一个银元大的小包裹是用丝绸缝制的，被安全地捆扎在脑后的发髻里。
Buehler's team carried out a series of atomic-level computer simulations that investigated the molecular failure mechanisms in silk.
比勒的团队进行了一系列原子水平的计算机模拟，以考察天然丝中分子失灵的机制。
Such applications may be far off, Dr. Omenetto said, but the potential is vast - a fact he realized when he was first asked to poke holes in silk.
在奥门内托看来，类似这样的应用可能还挺遥远，但潜力巨大——当第一次被要求在丝膜上戳几个洞时，奥门内托就意识到这玩意儿非同寻常。
David spotted the pink silk lampshade in a shop and thought it would brighten up the room.
大卫在一家商店发现了这个粉色的丝绸灯罩,他想它会使房间生辉。
A wool jacket complements the silk trousers and provides an interesting contrast in texture.
毛料上衣配真丝长裤，质地上的差异非常有趣。
They wore blue silk dresses with cream sashes and garlands of summer flowers in their hair.
她们穿着配有米色腰带的蓝色丝质连衣裙，头上戴着夏季的花儿编成的花环。
While it is unknown just how much of this is true, it is certainly known that silk cultivation has existed in China for several millennia.
虽然我们不知道这其中有多少是真实的，但可以肯定的是，丝绸栽培在中国已经存在了几千年。
The earliest indication of silk paper being used was discovered in the tomb of a noble who is estimated to have died around 168 AD.
最早的丝绸纸使用迹象是在一个贵族的坟墓中被发现的，据估计，这位贵族逝世于公元168年左右。
By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world, the Silk Road covered almost 6500 kilometers.
到中国的丝绸贸易在世界上变得重要的时候，丝绸之路已经长达6500公里。
China was the first country in the world to cultivate silkworms and develop silk weaving. More than 3,000 years ago, sericulture and silk weaving were already significantly developed.
中国是世界上最早发明养蚕和丝织的国家；早在3,000多年以前，蚕桑、丝织已相当发达。
Brewer says that the word comes from the time when silk or cloth shoes were worn indoors and in dry conditions.
Brewer说，这个词来自于人们在室内和干燥的地方穿丝鞋或布鞋的时代。
The tools used in traditional Chinese painting are paintbrush, ink, traditional paint and special paper or silk.
中国传统绘画的工具是画笔、油墨、传统颜料和特种纸或丝绸。
Families offer homestays, while shepherds in remote mountain pastures put up guests in yurts – a sort of wigwam b&b on the Silk Road.
家庭提供食宿，而在遥远的高山草场上，牧民们让游客在圆顶帐篷里留宿——这是一种丝绸之路上的棚屋家庭旅馆。
Today, around 125,000 metric tons of silk is produced in the world, and almost two-thirds of that production takes place in China.
如今世界上生产的丝绸约有12.5万吨，其中近三分之二产自中国。
By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world, the Silk Road had covered almost 6,500 kilometers.
到了中国的丝绸贸易成为世界重要贸易时，丝绸之路已经覆盖了将近6500公里。
Cheaper Japanese silk, trade in which was greatly facilitated by the opening of the Suez Canal, was one of the many factors driving the trend.
随着苏伊士运河的开通极大地促进了日本丝绸贸易，更廉价的日本丝绸是推动这一趋势的众多因素之一。
Silk tubes, made by dipping a wax mold in aqueous silk solution, have a number of tissue engineering applications like blood vessel grafts and nerve guides.
丝管是通过将蜡模浸入水化的丝蛋白溶液中制成的，有许多组织工程应用，如血管移植和神经导引。
Even now, silk processed in the province of Como in northern Italy enjoys an esteemed reputation.
即使是现在，在意大利北部的科莫省加工的丝绸仍然享有很高的声誉。
Even now, silk processed in the province of Como in northern Italy enjoys an esteemed reputation.
即使是现在，在意大利北部的科莫省加工的丝绸仍然享有很高的声誉。
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