| 单词 | sisal |
| 例句 | My grandmother was sitting in the rocking chair in front of our house, making knots in the sisal rope around her waist. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z We were each given three thin blankets plus a sisal mat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She then choked the pants at the waist with a piece of sisal rope to hold them up. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Our bedding consisted of a single sisal, or straw, mat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The women beat out their sisal mats and replant their fields while grieving for lost children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Later we were given a felt mat, and one placed the felt mat on top of the sisal one to provide some softness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The belt was a crude twist of sisal. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a scrap of ancient bark material tied with a twist of sisal. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He adjusted his tall hat made of sisal fibers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead we had long, accordion-like barriers, made from sisal, that worked by a pneumatic pump located down in the basement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her gold jewelry dangling over a brightly colored dress, she carefully tied the limbs together with rope made from a sisal plant. Smithsonian Folklife Festival kicks off with celebrations of Chinese, Kenyan culture Locally made plywood desks and sisal chairs furnish spare rooms featuring tile floors and rough plaster walls. 8 Distinctive Caribbean Inns for a Range of Budgets 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Dozens of the sisal haciendas outside Mérida have been renovated as resorts. Shaped by Mérida’s Artistic Soul 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The company works with fibers from rapidly replenishable materials: jute, sisal, wool, alpaca and linen. 5 ways to give your home a green reboot 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z A large sisal area rug provides texture and unifies the space. For a more modern living room, start by painting the wood trim 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The many fine Oriental and Aubusson rugs were pulled up and replaced with sisal and seagrass for the season, a tradition that was in keeping with practices of centuries before. Stay-cool strategies from the old school — and a few new ones, too 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z “To incorporate the smaller shapes of vintage dhurries, I like them layered over a sisal rug,” Matthews says. Dhurries are back — or were they really gone? Soon she begins leaving bizarre crosses made of sisal bound sticks around their house. "Servant" is M. Night Shyamalan's slow stroll through the horror of first world problems 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The Hoods decorated their front porch with lamps that look like sea-weathered wood, sisal rugs, and throw pillows with wavy and coral-like patterns inspired by the Atlantic Ocean just a short drive away. Timeless Coastal Charm 2010-03-31T15:04:00Z The only protection for the bands was a piece of sisal twine stretched in front of the crowd; it had disappeared by the time Jefferson Airplane began playing, in the late afternoon. The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Lucy’s Style Secret: Layer a variety of patterned rugs over a neutral sisal floor covering. New Vintage Style 2010-10-21T18:02:00Z In the 1980s and 1990s, Randolph and other top local decorators were often featured in national magazines for combining practicality and luxury — juxtaposing simple linen fabrics and sisal rugs. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Cave made it with a company of masked dancers and acrobats performing as shamans dressed in suits of brilliantly dyed feathers and sisal. | The Stand-Up, Button-Down Suit 2011-10-03T19:43:26Z Bring in texture and visual interest with a sisal rug and a banana-leaf mirror. Creating a serene coastal-themed basement retreat 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Local weavers made the adorable sisal turtles attached to the menus, brought out only at the end of dinner. Perspective | A world-class chef built a $600 pop-up in the Mexican jungle. It might be ‘the meal of the decade.’ 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z A zigzagging Oscar de la Renta wallpaper adds zing to the walls, while a mirror edged in chalky white plaster and sisal pendant lights tone things down a notch. Decorate Like Jeffrey Alan Marks, Courtesy of the CuratedKravet.com Pop-Up Shop in New York City 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z But while they borrowed from this heritage, the Jacobis made weavings that were more like sculptural reliefs, retaining the natural hues of the materials, which included cotton, untreated cardboard, sandpaper, sisal, coconut fiber and graphite. Ritzi Jacobi, Maker of Mind-Bending Textile Art, Dies at 80 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Anna set a neutral stage using gray or creamy white walls and natural sisal rugs. Settling (stylishly) into a Capitol Hill rowhouse 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z In “Maya-Bantu,” Kiwanga says, sisal is in a not-yet-fixed state: “It’s not a rug or a rope or anything yet, but it’s no longer a plant. It’s just this raw material — a question of possibility.” To Illuminate History, an Artist Turns Out the Lights 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Dark gray walls and a sisal carpet make the perfect setting for early-2000s works by the English hard-edge painter Bridget Riley, all featuring her signature rolling, serif-like waves of lucid color. TEFAF New York: A Worldly Fair Overflows With Art and Design 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Today, Washingtonians are still walking on sisal, whose crisp and natural look seems to go equally well with flea-market finds and English antiques. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The work, composed of metal rods hung from the ceiling and covered in strands of sisal which bristle and glow in the light, also invokes aspects of a colonial past. To Illuminate History, an Artist Turns Out the Lights 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z "For instance, pairing a plush sheepskin accent rug on top of a woven sisal rug is a great way to contrast the two materials in a soft yet effective way." How to layer rugs — because why stop at one 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z She reeled off a list of the items now too expensive: sugar, maize flour, her daughter’s school fees, the sisal to make her baskets. Kenya Stares Into ‘Abyss’ as Soaring Prices and Feuding Leaders Bring Chaos 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z And don’t forget the sisal carpeting on the stairs. Your guide to the ultimate ‘coastal grandmother’ summer His father drove a tractor at a nearby sisal plantation but lost his job when it closed, according to interviews with local residents. Haiti’s Leader Kept a List of Drug Traffickers. His Assassins Came for It. 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z The stair runners are wool sisal imported from London. Not just a high-end D.C. townhouse, but a destination 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Using gunny bags made of sisal to protect the seedlings and prevent them from getting washed away, the women replanted seagrass seedlings on the ocean floor. 'Lobsters and octopuses are back': the Kenyan women leading a reef revival 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Patterns are a great way to add color to a space, especially if layered with a solid color or a sisal rug. 6 ways to make your rental feel like home 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z There are big fat ropes, too, and I can’t wait to use those: swinging the sisal up and down, strengthening my triceratops muscles or whatever they’re called. Perspective | Hark, hear the kettle bells: A personal trainer is helping me find my core 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Shortly after affixing said item to my living room’s ceiling, I realized: This glitter bomb needs a better rug under it, because the sisal ain’t cutting it. Reading Nook: Henry Alford on Cervantes, the floor and me 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Other stallholders are asking their customers to bring plastic bowls or traditional bags made from sisal fibre. Eight months on, is Kenya's plastic bag ban working? 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z And a synthetic sisal carpet, typically used on boats, was cut to fit the space and hide the concrete floor. Creating a Garden Oasis in the City 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Lanteri anchored it over a neutral-toned sisal that bridged the caramel, russet, orange and red of the rug and the pale maple wood floor. Home designs that came from the art 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The cardinal red in the border of this Pottery Barn carpet echoes the console’s color, and the rug's organic seagrass and sisal materials speak to the mirror’s natural Swiss-pine frame, said Manhattan designer Jessica Gersten. Design Dilemma: Can Unfinished Pine Live With Slick Red Lacquer? 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “There’s also some charcoal and black, like the large black sisal rug, which really grounds the room.” You might need sunglasses for this stunning design trend: Metallic wallcoverings 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z I have vivid memories of my father visiting us at school with his locally made sisal bag. How My Father and I Fought for Gender Equality Together 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z “Most people are working in the sisal field but for the past eight months they have not worked and not been paid,” she explained. Madagascar: the country that's poor but not poor enough for aid 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The house does have some of the classic “Nantucket style” items that have become a cliché: sisal rugs, bowls of shells, wicker furniture, model ships and blue-and-white fabrics and walls. A Home in Quintessential Nantucket Style 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z He twists his own waxed linen or sisal cord, using a power drill, a few cup hooks and a simple rope-making disc to achieve a tighter ply than commercial cord. Craftsman takes textile art in new directions 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Residents reclaimed the land from the sisal and sugar cane plantations in 1986, after the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier fell from power. Earthquake Relief Where Haiti Wasn’t Broken 2012-07-06T02:26:54Z The sisal hemp fields look very attractive, and as the train rushes on, we catch glimpses of laughing children, who are playing amid a wilderness of roses. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z When he recovered consciousness, Bertram found himself lying on a stretcher in a little natural clearing in the bush—a tiny square enclosed by acacia, sisal, and mimosa scrub. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z The chief exports are sisal fibre, rubber, hides and skins, wax, ivory, copra, coffee, ground-nuts and cotton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Now what under the sun would you suppose sisal was? Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs 2011-09-03T02:00:18.353Z The more important fibres of this class are manila, sisal, phormium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The hard or leaf fibers, including manila, sisal, istle and the New Zealand fibers, all having rather stiff woody fibers, one to ten feet long, are obtained from the leaf or the leaf stem. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z International companies like Dupont began replacing sisal, which we grow, with synthetic fibers. After Quake, Rural Haiti Struggles to Absorb the Capital?s Displaced 2010-03-16T16:58:00Z To the right a green-covered promontory projected far into the bay, dotted with occasional native shacks and planted in part with sisal hemp. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers I saw in the book that sisal was being grown in increasing quantities in the islands, and I just naturally supposed it was some sort of animal. Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs 2011-09-03T02:00:18.353Z He is in charge of the raw materials—the coal and iron and lumber and sisal and flax. The Romance of the Reaper Cuban bast, sisal, and various other materials are used for tying, but nothing is better for this purpose than raffia fiber. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history For the storage of coffee, alcohol, sisal, sugar and general commodities, private warehouses offer a floor space of 2,000,000 square feet. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce A section may include coffee, rubber, sisal, teak, bamboo, a coagulation station and nurseries. All About Coffee I'll never get over the way Mr. Kimball looked at me when he said as how sisal was hemp; and me thinking all the time it was a animal when it was a herb. Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs 2011-09-03T02:00:18.353Z And Yucatan is the only spot in the world where sisal can be grown in commercial quantities. The Romance of the Reaper The jungle sends forth healthy trees two hundred feet in height, thriving for centuries, but it reaches out and blights the attempts of man, whether sisal, rubber, cocoa, or coffee. Edge of the Jungle On very heavy grafts Dr. Morris uses the Spanish windlass, as devised by him, for which he carries sisal cord, wooden or metal meat skewers, small staples and a mallet. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 The essential feature in the economic production of sisal hemp is machinery for separating the fibre from the pulp of the leaf. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Agave rigida.—The sisal hemp, introduced into Florida many years ago, for the sake of its fiber, but its cultivation has not been prosecuted to a commercial success. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture It sells from fifteen to eighteen million dollars’ worth of sisal a year, and the United States buys it all. The Romance of the Reaper The fibre of the agave, known as sisal hemp, is used in the manufacture of rope, twine, mats, brushes, etc. The Western United States A Geographical Reader The sisal hemp, pineapple, yucca, and a number of fiber plants growing in the southern part of the United States are worthy of note. Textiles and Clothing Hemp is used mainly for cordage, and the use of ramie, jute, and sisal hemp is confined mainly to the manufacture of very coarse cloths and rugs. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges It is very important when grafting nut trees to fasten strong bracing sticks alongside of vigorous shoots and tying them with sisal tarred cord, which holds good for two years. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 Semi-tropical products, such as maize, coffee, cotton, and millet, can be raised on an almost unlimited scale on the plateau; while rice, rubber, sisal, and copra are raised in the two lower belts. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. His palace in Mexico City, or on the sisal plains of Yucatan is reared on the stolen labour of a people whose bondage is based on a lie. The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Besides, the thorn bushes were patches of spiky aloe coming into red flower, and the spears of sisal. African Camp Fires The different kinds of sisal and hemp shown were pronounced by manufacturers to be of the very highest grade. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Other lines of industry worthy of mention, but not possible of detailed description here, include sponges, tortoise shell, honey, wax, molasses, and henequen or sisal. Cuba, Old and New A. decipiens, false sisal hemp; A. americana is the source of pita fibre, and is used as a fibre plant in Mexico, the West Indies and southern Europe. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The cultivation of sisal has only in recent times been prosecuted vigorously; and the extraction of the fiber from the leaves, and the subsequent spinning for ships' rigging, are already done by steam-machinery. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes There are fine mission stations in all the healthy regions of the country, and great plantations of rubber, sisal, cotton, and corn abound. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign The sisal cultivation yields an annual profit of 95 per cent. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes |
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