But his long hands formed manacles around my wrists as he spoke.

但当他时候，他长长手臂环住了我腰，形成了一个铁箍。

Every year the earth accumulates some thirty thousand metric tons of cosmic ferrules—space dust, in plainer language, which would be quite a lot if you swept it into one pile, but it is infinitesimal when spread across the globe.

每年地球会积累大约三万吨宇宙铁箍——用更直白语言来，太空尘埃——把它扫成一堆， 那将是相当多，但当它分布在全球时， 它就微不足道了。