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Meaning silk meaning
What does silk mean?
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Synonyms silk synonyms
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Topics silk topics
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Examples silk examples
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Simple sentences
The dress is of silk.
This feels like silk.
This beautiful dress is made of silk.
Glasswork came from Persia by way of the Silk Road.
The merchant deals in silk goods.
I have a good mind to visit the Silk Road.
I gave my father a silk tie.
Their main exports are textiles, especially silk and cotton.
The dress is made of silk.
Where can I buy silk?
Tom has a silk scarf.
Tom wore a silk shirt.
Mary wore a silk blouse.
The gown is made of silk.
Silk feels soft.
Her hair feels like silk.
She was in a silk dress.
When the frame is finished, the spider fixes lines of silk across it, just like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
Movie subtitles
You think your life line would be as tough as silk thread!
If the artificial silk is too clingy over pantyhose, and the Crimplene shift makes me look like a librarian -- thank you, Valerie -- then I really only have the ice blue Lurex and that's still at the dry cleaners.
It was pure silk twill with a handmade rolled edge.
Silk chiffon.
Silk, eh?
Silk.
But Christian armor is not made of silk.
Oatmeal tweeds, blouse, blue silk handkerchief.
Remember the time you shot the hole in old Scrooge's silk hat?
It's a piece of silk.
It's still a piece of silk.
Next trip I'll bring you some green silk for a frock to match it. - Oh, Rhett.
Lordy, that ain't nothing but my red silk petticoat you done give me.
All you have to do is wear. a pair of silk stockings, and they suspect you of counter-revolution.
Do you mean to tell me that 500,000 francs is concealed in that little bit of silk and lace?
Careful with the silk stockings!
It's foolish, maybe. but I thought if she saw some of the latest dresses. got the feel of silk, scent of perfume.
Something provocative about the feel of silk.
No, Rita can have all the silk stockings she wants.
Silk stockings!
Pure silk?
Next trip I'll bring you some green silk for a frock to match it. -Oh, Rhett.
It's blood on silk.
We got silk from last night's wreck. You see?
And we'll put silk next to that smooth skin of yours, hmm?
Pale green silk, I think, what?
I could use a couple of dresses and a pair of silk stockings right now.
I worked at the silk mill in Senju until yesterday.
I always remember, with his red suit, his silk tights and stockings.
Look. Silk.
She left nothing but a coffee pot and an old pair of silk stockings.
It has a silk lining. - Yes.
Yes, I'll dress you, my dear. And we'll put silk next to that smooth skin of yours, hmm?
News and current affairs
The New Silk Road land belt seeks to connect China with the economies of East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Europe through an expanded grid of rail, highways, power, fiber, and other networks.
And the new 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is aimed at boosting ocean-based trade in East Asia and the Indian Ocean.
The natural outlet for this production is along the New Silk Road.
For the time being, though, squabbles over the New Silk Road seem less painful to the two powers than enduring lectures from the West.
China's most ambitious effort to date, the Silk Road Fund dwarfs the activities of the more traditional international financial institutions, in terms of both scale and range of activities.
As it stands, the Silk Road Fund is unilateral, placing it in the same category as the China Development Bank and the state-owned investment conglomerate CITIC.
The US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership, for example, is directed against China; and China's New Silk Road initiative is a reaction to its exclusion from the 12-country TPP.
Witness the migration of peoples and religions, or trade along the ancient silk route that connected medieval Europe and Asia.
In the first century C.E., it continued its advance, spreading along the Silk Road to Central Asia and China, and finally made its way to Korea and Japan centuries later.
And yet, it is also a region with a distant history of great economic and cultural achievement in the Silk Road era, and that recently has emerged as a focus of renewed global competition reminiscent of the Cold War.
Among them were two recent Cambridge graduates, William Astbury and John Desmond Bernal, who became interested in the problem of protein structure--Astbury as a result of being asked by Bragg to provide X-ray diagrams of wool and silk.
President Shevardnadze dreamed of a new Silk Road back in the 1980s, when still the USSR's foreign minister.
More generally, Chinese investment will ease the constraints on the silk road economies caused partly by slow growth and investment shortfalls in advanced economies.
Recent historical research has rescued the old Silk Road from historical oblivion.
An alternative might be a dialogue between the EU and the EEU, but that would be tricky as the EEU pursues a closer relationship with China and its Silk Road allies.
And it has started to reshape the international financial architecture with new institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the New Development Bank, and the Silk Road Fund.
Known as Depsang, the plateau lies astride an ancient silk route connecting Yarkand in Xinjiang to India's Ladakh region through the Karakoram Pass.
China, located at the eastern end of Eurasia, is planning to reopen the continental Silk Road through Central Asia and Russia in the direction of Europe.
Yet it simultaneously needs good relations with China and cannot block the Silk Road project.
The Chinese state probably hasn't sat on so much lucre since the halcyon days of the Qing Empire, when insatiable European demand for porcelain, tea and silk flooded the central coffers in Beijing with silver bullion.
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