But before going in, Theseus unraveled a ball of yarn.

但在进入之前，提修斯打散了一团毛线。

Well, in the 1590s, a ball of yarn was called a clew, spelled c-l-e-w.

16世纪90年代，毛线球叫做线团，拼写是clew。

He noticed that when he put various coloured balls of yarn out in his garden, almost always one and only one became popular that season for incorporation into local birds' nests.

这位博物学家发现，在把各种颜色的毛线球放在花园里之后，几乎总会有且仅有一种颜色的毛线球会在那个季节流行起来，出现在当地许多鸟窝里。

Yeah, we get a ball of yarn, and we each cut a piece that we think is just big enough to fit around your stomach, and the one closest wins a prize.

我们用一团纺纱，每人觉得你肚子有多大，就取多长，最接近的就赢了。

This takes its name from the Latin word glomus, meaning " ball of yarn" — which is what it looks like, a tangle of fibers that serves as a kind of a transfer station, where the nose information turns into brain information.

它的名字来源于拉丁语 glomus，意思是" 纱线球" ——它看起来就是这样，一团纤维充当了某种中转站，在那里，鼻子信息转化为大脑信息。