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?

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？

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When I was ten, I wanted to work on my father's ship. When Thomas was ten, he asked me to let him plant the corn.

当我十岁的时候，我想在我父亲的船上工作。托马斯十岁的时候，他要求我让他种玉米。

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He said the new plant would produce steel plates with a width of more than two meters used in automotive or ship building industries in the country.

他说新厂将生产用于本国汽车或轮船建造工业的两米多宽的钢板。

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U.S. Navy barges have been carrying fresh water to Fukushima Daiichi, and Tokyo's foreign ministry has asked Russia about using a Japanese-built ship outfitted as a floating decontamination plant.

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Today it's not uncommon for suppliers to build large chunks of an automobile--a complete dashboard or a front-end module, say--at their own factories, then ship them to the auto plant for final assembly.

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