The animal often lives in silk-cotton trees, which bear silk-like fruit pods that match the anteater's fur coat.

这种动物通常生活在木棉树上，它们结出的像丝一样的果荚与食蚁兽的毛皮相匹配。

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Natural fabrics like silk and wool are better insulators than synthetics.

丝绸和羊毛之类的纯天然织物比合成纤维更加保暖。

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It feels like silk.

这摸起来像丝绸。

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If one can learn anything from futuristic and successful peer-to-peer marketplaces like Fancy, Silk Road and bitcoin-OTC, the lesson is that reputations matter and exploiting the reputational component opens up breathtaking advancements in payments and P2P exchange.

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To the function-based repurposing of natural-wonder materials, like silk and cashmere.

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You place in front of them a billion pound carrot of borrowing powers - a golden carrot, if you like, but on condition that Silk or a broad swathe of it is implemented - and you make that explicit deal very public in advance.

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