A spider can produce several kinds of thread.
一只蜘蛛能吐好幾種絲。
She uses a dry, tough thread for foundation lines,
它用粗的干絲做底線,
and she uses a sticky thread for snare lines
用有黏性的絲做捕捉昆蟲的線
- the ones that catch and hold insects.
——它們會粘住昆蟲,把它們捉住。
Charlotte decided to use her dry thread for writing the new message.
夏洛決定用它的干絲織出新的字。
"If I write the word 'Terrific' with sticky thread," she thought,
“如果我用有黏性的絲織‘了不起’這幾個字,”它想,
"every bug that comes along will get stuck in it and spoil the effect."
“甲蟲來了就會粘在上面,把字弄壞。”
"Now let's see, the first letter is T."
“現在讓我想想,第一個字是‘T’。”