慢速英语:A Forest of Art That Grows on Museum Visitors in New York

1. This nest is made up of thousands of pieces of bamboo tied together with the kind of brightly colored rope usually used by mountain climbers.

made up of由…组成，由…构成

例句：The committee is made up of fifty people.
      委员会是由五十个人组成的。

      The ocean bottom is made up of smooth plains.
      洋底由平坦的平原构成。

2. If you lined up all the stores side by side, they would cover a distance of almost seven kilometers.

line up排成一行

例句：Line up these men and see if the witness can recognize the criminal.
      让这些人站成一排看看见证人能否从中把罪犯认出来。

排队等候

例句：I hate lining up in the cold to go to the cinema.
      我非常讨厌在大冷天里排队等着看电影。