One skein, two skeins, three skeins, and still the spool was full.
一团，两团，三团，纱锭还是满的。
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Just as darkness was falling , in flew the black thing with the five skeins of flax .
天刚刚黑， 那黑东西就飞进来了，并带来了纺好的五绞线。
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Designed in 1931 by marine biologist Alister Hardy, the Continuous Plankton Recorder is a biopunk-named, nondescript-looking steel box containing two skeins of silk mesh.