Digesting plant fiber is the hardest job in the world.

消化植物纤维才是最困难的事情。

OK. In the last class, we started talking about useful plant fibers.

在上一节课，我们开始探讨有用的植物纤维。

The genetic engineering does not affect the plant's fiber for use in cloth.

这项基因技术不会影响布料中使用的植物纤维。

Reused plastic bottles, wood, plant fiber, and even seaweed are being used in place of traditional materials for household goods and clothing.

可重复使用的塑料瓶、木材、植物纤维，甚至海藻都被用来代替家居用品和服装所使用的传统材料。

The females produce the paper by chewing up plant fibers or old wood.

雌性通过咀嚼植物纤维或旧木头来生产纸张。

She chews the surrounding wood and plant fibers to make a paper-like pulp.

她咀嚼周围的木头和植物纤维，制成像纸一样的纸浆。

Then, they're transported to another facility where they're dried and blended with plant fibers, beechwood grains, and natural resins.

然后，它们被运送到另一个设施，在那里它们被干燥并与植物纤维、山毛榉木颗粒和天然树脂混合。

Now, my brain gets going with this, and I think, " OK, we can grow skin, we can grow pure collagen, we can use plant fibers. . ."

我就开始想了，“我们可以培养人造皮，可以培养纯胶原蛋白，我们可以使用植物纤维.... . ."

If you wanna tie your anchor to it and drop it right into the ocean, that's no problem, because plant fibers can stand up for months, even years, in direct contact with salt water.

如果你想绑上锚，然后将锚扔到海里，一点问题都没有，因为植物纤维直接接触海水也能坚持好几个月，甚至好几年。

OK. So how do you take plant fibers that individually you could break with your hands and turn them into a rope that's strong enough to moor a ship that weighs thousands of tons?

那么你是怎么将只手可以拉断的植物纤维做成强韧到可以泊上万吨船的绳子的？