1.The gossamer strands, slowly overtaking a lakefront peninsula, emit a fetid odor, perhaps from the dead insects entwined in the silk.
日积月累地盘据半岛上湖滨地带的蜘蛛丝散发出恶臭,可能是蜘蛛丝上昆虫遗体腐化所致。
3.He was merely floating those gossamer threads of thought which, like the spiders, he hoped would lay hold somewhere.
他只是让自己的思绪像游丝般地飘浮着,指望这思绪像蜘蛛丝一样,会挂在什么地方。