Cross-hatching is a way of filling part of a drawing with lines. You draw one set of close lines, then another set across them, so the lines cross.

Cross-hatching交叉排線 is a way of filling part of a drawing with lines是一種用線條把畫面某個部分填滿的畫法。You draw one set of close lines你先畫一組密集的線，then another set across them再畫另一組線疊上去交叉，so the lines cross讓這些線互相交叉。

Artists use it to make a patch look darker — more crossing, more shade — without painting the whole area in.

Artists use it to make a patch look darker畫家用它讓某一塊看起來更暗——more crossing, more shade交叉得越多，陰影就越重——without painting the whole area in而不用把整塊區域塗滿。

In diagrams and plans, the same kind of crossing lines can mark that a part is a different material, or that you are looking at a cut-through view.

In diagrams and plans在圖表和設計圖裡，the same kind of crossing lines can mark that a part is a different material同樣的交叉線可以表示某個部分是不同的材質，or that you are looking at a cut-through view或表示你看到的是剖面圖。

It is a technique, so people often speak of “the cross-hatching” on a picture as a mass of lines, not as one single stroke. Though actually, a single set of parallel lines is just hatching; it becomes cross-hatching when a second set cuts across the first.

It is a technique這是一種技法，so people often speak of “the cross-hatching” on a picture as a mass of lines所以大家講一幅畫上的「cross-hatching」時，指的是一大片線條，not as one single stroke而不是指某一筆。Though actually不過其實，a single set of parallel lines is just hatching只有一組平行線的話，那只是 hatching（排線）；it becomes cross-hatching when a second set cuts across the first要等第二組線疊上去交叉，才會變成 cross-hatching。