a piece of string

基本解释

Think of it as a piece of string dyed in four different colors.
我们可以把它当作一段染上了四种不同颜色的细绳。
So effective was the Kahn/Cerf approach that insiders used to joke that TCP/IP would even work over a pair of tin-cans connected by a piece of string.
Kahn/Cerf的方案是如此的有效，以至于业内人士经常开玩笑说就算是在一根线连接的两个罐头上，TCP/IP也能工作。
It is fascinated by Vicky Freeman’s hollowed-out pumpkin, trying to work out whether it’s a treat to get its teeth into or a mere trick suspended by a piece of string.
这只松鼠被Vicky Freeman的镂空南瓜深深的吸引了，它想知道这是个吸引自己去啃食的陷阱，或者只是个悬在一根绳子下面的东西。

To keep himself awake as he flew east during the long night, Post tied a piece of string to one finger.

Four decades of arse parked inside a piece of string.
NEWYORKER: The Dog
Early research involved a colleague lying in a deckchair in the night-time open air with a piece of string to measure the meteors, while he observed electromagnetic signals on a cathode-ray tube in a nearby hut.
ECONOMIST: Bernard Lovell The