skein

1 Yet the ghosts of the past, of lost connections and missed opportunities, haunt both sections, binding the characters with a single, sorrowful skein.

2 Faces are criss-crossed with coloured skeins, or patterned in curves and circles until they are barely visible.

3 As the days go by, the strange events and increasingly disturbing situations that torment her will eventually lead her to unravel the terrible skein of secrets that surround the convent and haunt its inhabitants.

4 The dense workmanship mixed skeins of thick wool with pepper-and-salt tweed — and set that off against sheer chiffon.

5 “If fate was just a tapestry with a shifting design — some fraying skein that the gulls were tearing right this second — then Nal didn’t see why he couldn’t also find a loose thread, and pull.”

6 Technically, her performance was lovely: steps gathered into exquisite rushes of movement, or drawn out in long, fluid skeins.

7 They’re welded together into metallic skeins, winding up and doubling back into a form that just barely hints at something statuesque.

8 I put skeins of yarn, making sure it is coming out the top middle, in several sections.

9 To meet her deadline, Ms. Durant recruited a skein full of knitters to assist.

10 At the Parrish, skeins of neon in lavender or sea-foam green weave among the building’s wooden rafters.

11 The grubby, soiled surface makes me think of the cigarette butts, coins and a key stuck in the skeins of paint of Jackson Pollock’s ecstatic 1947 drip painting, “Full Fathom Five.”

12 With sinewy skeins of ink, and pools and streaks of wash, Rembrandt gives a bourgeois bedroom the shadowed silence of an aisle chapel in a church.

13 On the fourth floor, all the sculpture are bronze, including two enormous baskets, one occupied by a giant snake, the other filled with skeins of hair, some of them tinted red, as if bloodied.

14 After every last doily, every stitch of fabric, each skein of yard has been bought; once even the very fixtures and shelves are sold off, Wells will lock the door for the last time and walk away.

15 You do not know what exactly you are looking at, or where you are, but these whorls and skeins and ripples conjure an atmosphere, or perhaps a memory, of summer gardens, undergrowth, warm riverbanks.

16 Mother seemed pleased by the skeins of new wool that she pulled from her own bag, which bristled with needles of every size.

17 Both the shapes and rhythms of the choreography react directly to the score: angular geometries; a drifting adagio; skeins of turns wrapped around a rising scale; tiny transitional steps that sparkle like musical jokes.

18 It was as if all of a sudden Naheed was a giant in the room with an endless skein of cotton on her head and everyone was staring at her, and it.

19 The skein after winding is characterized by even thickness and good form.

卷绕后的丝片具有厚薄均匀，成形良好的特点。

20 Scorsese presents not merely one skein of interlocking scandals but an existential vision of society, the very immoral essence of humankind, looked in the face and wearing suits.

1 群

group game school lot community body band crowd bunch pride troop cluster gang nest clutch knot flock clot swarm wisp shoal boodle kaboodle Abelian group

2 一队

pack corps squadron platoon posse tail troop gang crocodile

3 鸟群

volary wing

4 一束

hand budget bottle whisk bob gout hank tuffet skean flock a bouquet of cluster shaft tuft sheaf lock bunch bundle fascicle Bob chink band

5 混乱

cock-a-hoop hirdie-girdie fouled-up involved upset confused chaotic dizzy turbulent tangled drowning tumultuous foggy disturbed disorderly woolly shaggy deranged unstuck haywire hurried snafu vexatious turbid non-operational mixed-up confounded mazy snarly hurly-burly flurried tangly raddled untogether wuzzy farmisht farblonjet drumly throughither helter-skelter muck-up ravelment ballup fubb fumtu hash-up do mix smoke disorder mess dust coil confusion pi jungle hassle disruption scramble clutter swirl melee tumble hustle maze turmoil tangle puddle whirlpool flurry huddle anarchy ruffle twine smother dislocation mull jumble perplex muddle snarl disarray crisscross cobweb botch tumult dither mix-up turbidity perplexity disorganization muss tousle topsy-turvy kerfuffle welter fubar involution ravel Mess-up unreason pell-mell foul-up dishabille throe bollix cockup moil deray balls-up hugger-mugger snarl-up swither mullock ataxy piss-up hurry-scurry schemozzle wander twist confuse disrupt amuse confound bugger entangle embroil denigrate disorganize derange roil disorient discombobulate ballocks fuddle mux disrupture ensnarl embrangle in a spin make hay of stand on its head throw out of gear ball up in a fog make work complicated muddy upside-down unsettling perplexed rough-and-tumble addled rhapsodic addle ataxic mussy jumbly rhapsodical tumultuary spiflicated out shine pie chaos hurry riot pickle spaghetti to-do whirl entanglement perturbation faze promiscuity ataxia fluster pandemonium swelter babel anomie muddiness disarrange razzle-dazzle higgledy-piggledy embarras exorbitance bouleversement topsyturvy stirabout turbidness spifflicate puzzle complicate torment dislocate perturb becloud moider spiflicate tailspin mess-up hog wild

6 一球

cluster

7 一群

pack crop pride gang flock bevy gaggle number collection batch cluster congregation cohort squadron brood posse covey jingbang company cloud clutch constellation skit game run lot body troop nest mob horde wisp skulk the whole caboodle stock kit string crowd bunch tribe parcel boiling platoon huddle rabble passel

8 绞

strand wring hank tax lay pump twist fraise

9 纠缠

knotted afoul ravelment tracasserie tangle involution knot dangle intwine intwist engage bone pursue haunt badger entangle pester entwine ravel beleaguer fankle entwist swirl implication twine sleave weave devil foul implicate perplex embroil bedevil importune entrammel ensnarl embrangle

10 束

fascicular top package bottle bunch pad beam bundle pencil tract truss tuft wisp hank sheaf fascicle fasciculus fascicule faggot bind gird sheave girt