The medieval Mappa Mundi in England's Hereford cathedral, for example, is little more than drawings on vellum, or stretched calfskin, and it lacks Ptolemy's geometric method.

比如，中世纪制作的英格兰赫里福德教堂世界地图不过是些绘在羔皮、或者说拉伸了的犊皮上的图案，没有使用托勒密的几何方法。

He got out hides because it had to be done—goatskins and calfskins—steeped them in the river, laid them in bark, and tanned them after a fashion ready for shoes.

他拿出兽皮， 因为这是必须要做的——山羊皮和小牛皮——把它们浸泡在河里， 放在树皮里， 然后按照一种时尚的方式将它们鞣制成鞋子。

And then she came—a big, brown-eyed girl, full-built and coarse, with good, heavy hands, and rough hide brogues on her feet as if she had been a Lapp, and a calfskin bag slung from her shoulders.

然后她来了——一个大个子、棕色眼睛的女孩， 身材丰满，粗犷，有一双结实的手， 脚上穿着粗糙的牛皮布洛克鞋， 仿佛她是拉普人， 肩上挎着一个小牛皮包。