1.a small rope fastened horizontally between the shrouds in the rigging of a sailing ship to form a rung of a ladder for the crew going aloft
1.He fled Germany at the end of the war via a ratline to south America, and was captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
他在战争解释的时候逃离了德军,通过一条纳粹逃生系统通往南美,之后再阿根廷被摩萨德抓获。