The truck used a cable to drag the car.

卡车用缆索拖曳汽车。

From its rigging and its low masts, the Canadian replied, I bet it's a warship.

“从帆缆索具和桅杆高度看，”加拿大人回答说，“我敢打赌那是一艘。

Hazy flickerings were reflected on its rigging and indicated that its furnaces were pushed to the limit.

一道模糊的反射光照在它的帆缆索具上，暴露出它已经火力猛了。

So, two auxiliary cables from the platform to each tower were added, plus more backstays to balance the load.

因此， 增加了从平台到每个塔的两条辅助缆索，以更多的后拉索来平衡负载。

Those ropes are twisted together into larger ones, which make up the cables of the bridge, and now you have a foundation.

这些绳索被绞合成更大的绳索，构成桥梁的缆索，现在你有了一个地基。

One nice aspect of cable-supported structures is that you can estimate the tension in each one just by looking at it.

缆索支撑结构的一个优点是，您只观察就可以估计每个结构的张力。

Match the two parts of the sentences about possible technical issues during the installation of cable saddles on a new suspension bridge.

在新悬索桥上安装缆索鞍座时可能出现的技术问题句子两部分的匹配。

I was at the pains of making ropes and cables, by twisting ten, twenty, or thirty of the thickest and strongest of theirs.

我绞尽脑汁地制作绳索和缆索，将十根、二十根或三十根最粗最结实的绳索和缆绳绞在一起。

Additional cables, called backstays, were connected to anchorages behind each tower to balance the horizontal forces, similar to the way suspension bridges work with their towers and abutment anchorages.

额外的缆索（称为后拉索）连接到每个塔后面的锚地，以平衡水平力，类似于悬索桥与其塔和桥台锚地的工作方式。

Your rigging hangs loose: The mast is not held secure, the sail is not spread. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided and even the lame will carry off plunder.

你的缆索松开，不能栽稳桅杆，也不能扬起篷来；那时许多掳来的物被分了，瘸腿的把掠物夺去了。

Cutting loose the anchors, they left them in the sea and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.

于是砍断缆索，弃锚在里，同时也松开舵绳，拉起头篷，顺着风向岸行去。

You can see the cables let go from Tower 4, the platform swinging downward, the support cables crashing through the suspended catwalk, and the top section of Tower 4 breaking off from the unbalanced force of the backstays.

您可以看到缆索从 4 号塔上松开， 平台向下摆动，支撑缆索冲破悬空的道，4 号塔的顶部因后拉索的不平衡力而断裂。