To get our bearings, we can start as before: dividing the canvas roughly in two.

为了获得我们的方位， 我们可以像以前一样开始：将画布大致分成两部分。

Jeans have been popular for more than a century In the 1850s, Levi Strauss thought people needed strong canvas in California.

牛仔裤流行了一个多世纪 1850 年代，Levi Strauss 认为加利福尼亚的人们需要结实的帆布。

It would be an enormous night reception with palms and an orchestra and all the porches shrouded in canvas, and a collation that made her mouth water in anticipation.

四周的回廊全要用帆布遮起来，那各式小吃使她想一想都要流口水。

That's a long way since the inventor of the parachute Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin used a canvas canopy in a small basket to drop from beneath a hot air balloon in 1797.

这距离1797年发明降落伞的法国人安德烈雅克·加内林用一个装在小篮子里的帆布罩棚从热气球上跳伞已过去许久。

After all if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, you don't need to canvas back and forth wandering and whistling in hopes of spotting an uncommon duck to fit the " bill" .

毕竟，如果它看起来像只鸭子，像鸭子一样游来游去，像鸭子一样呱呱叫，你不需要徘徊并吹口哨，希望能发现一只符合“安排”的不寻常的鸭子。