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| 1 | C/U a long thin fibre used for sewing pieces of cloth together or for weaving 线 |
| cotton/silk/nylon thread 棉线/丝线/尼龙线 |
| You need a longer piece of thread. 你需要一根长点儿的线。 |
| | 1a | a long thin fibre or piece of something 细丝；长纤维；长条状的东西 | | a caterpillar dangling by a silken thread 吊在丝线上的毛虫 | |
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| 2 | C the raised line that curves around a screw or the inside of the lid of a container 螺纹 |
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| 3 | C a long thin line of something 一条；一线 |
| +of A silvery thread of water cut through the forest. 一条银色的河流横穿森林。 |
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| 4 | C an idea or condition that exists in all the different parts of something and connects them （贯穿始终的）主线，思路 |
| a common/connecting thread There is a common thread running through all the problems. 所有这些问题都有一个共同的特点。 |
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| 5 | C computing a series of messages on a message board （公告板上的）系列信息 |
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| 6 | C +of literary a very small amount or level of something 少量；低水平 |
| Her voice was a whisper, a thin thread of sound. 她声音微弱，气若游丝。 |
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| - | hang by a thread
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| to be in great danger of death or failure |
| 千钧一发；岌岌可危 |
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| His son’ s life was hanging by a thread. 他的儿子生命垂危。 |
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| - | lose the thread
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| 1 | to stop concentrating so that you do not understand what someone is saying 走神 | More than once she lost the thread and had to ask them to speak more slowly. 她多次走神，只好求他们说慢一点。 | |
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| 2 | to stop concentrating and forget what you intended to say next 断了思路；失去头绪 |
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| - | pick up/take up the threads
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| to start doing something again that you had stopped doing |
| 继续从事；重新开始做 |
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| I picked up the threads of ordinary life again. 我重新开始过普通生活。 |
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