It is a tangled skein, you understand.

这是一个缠结的绞线， 你明白的。

You know: skeins of geese against an evening sky.

你知道：成群的鹅映衬着傍晚的天空。

" I know I have it somewhere, " said Fleecy Flock helplessly, jumbling up the skeins and bundles.

“我知道我在某个地方找到了它， ” Fleecy Flock 无助地说， 把线团和包裹弄得乱七八糟。

If he could pass the examination, his father would give him a skein of gold wire as a prize.

如果他能通过考试，他父亲将奖他一整金线。

The approach of the elections was the thread that led him once more to the skein of subversion.

选举的临近是导致他再次陷入颠覆的主线。

On one side of her, three volumes of fiction lay kissing the mud; on the other numerous skeins of polychromatic wools lay absorbing it.

在她的一侧，三卷小说贴在泥土上。在另一边，无数的彩色羊毛线束吸收了它。

We returned from our visit to The Haven with the hope that one free end of this tangled skein was already in our hands.

我们结束了对避风港的访问， 希望这根缠结的线团的一端已经在我们手中。

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough; but complexity precedes evolution.

历史是一团纠结的线团， 随时都可以拉起来， 解得够多就断了； 但复杂性先于进化。

And everything was ready to sew together in the morning, all measured and sufficient—except that there was wanting just one single skein of cherry-coloured twisted silk.

一切都准备好在早上缝合在一起， 一切都经过分寸和足够——除了只需要一束樱桃色的绞丝。

When the tailor awoke in the morning, the first thing which he saw upon the patchwork quilt, was a skein of cherry-coloured twisted silk, and beside his bed stood the repentant Simpkin!

裁缝早上醒来，第一眼看到的是拼布被子上的一缕樱桃色绞丝，床边站着悔改的辛普金！

After breakfast, when Grandet had gone to his fields and his other occupations, Charles remained with the mother and daughter, finding an unknown pleasure in holding their skeins, in watching them at work, in listening to their quiet prattle.

早饭后，葛朗台下地干活去了，夏尔留在母女俩身边，握着她们的线团，看着她们干活，听她们轻声细语，这让夏尔感到莫名的愉悦。