From the 1880s to the 1930s, the textile industry in Japan employed over half of all workers, most of them in the three major branches of silk reeling, cotton spinning, and weaving.

从十九世纪八十年代到三十年代，日本的纺织工业雇用了半数以上的工人，其中大部分在缫丝、棉纺和织造三大部门。

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Pointing at the half-done cloth, she said, "The cloth is woven from the best silk. Now if I cut it, all my previous work will be wasted. It's the same as your study."

她指着做了一半的布说：“这布是用最好的丝绸织成的。现在如果我剪掉它，我之前所有的工作都白费了。这和你的学习是一样的。”

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Hermes International SCA, the French maker of luxury handbags and silk scarves, said first-half profit increased 55 percent, beating analysts’ estimates, on demand for leather goods in Asia.

法国奢侈手袋和丝巾制造商爱玛仕集团(Hermes International SCA)上半年利润增长55%,超过分析家的预期,主要原因是来找亚洲的对皮制品的需求.

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No matter how devious the mystery, and violent the detail, no alert reader of "The House of Silk" will be able to spend more than a half-dozen pages in its company without wanting to laugh.

WSJ: Book Review: The House of Silk

It stayed away from a high pressure zone with light winds off Nova Scotia, and built up a big enough lead to withstand the challenge from Silk Cut which was in the right place to benefit from the conditions in the second half of the leg.

BBC: Leg Eight: Toshiba snatches victory

Doede, who chairs the private equity AIG Silk Road Fund, spent an average of a week a month for four and a half years looking for "a neglected opportunity" in the politically and economically dicey part of the world stuck between Russia to the north, China to the east and Iran and Pakistan to the south.

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