In this task, you are given a sentence or phrase in English. You must translate it to Xhosa in a way that is equivalent in terms of meaning and grammatically correct.

The eye of the needle rests in the metal cup as the needle is forced through the fabric.
Amehlo enaliti aphumla nesinyithi sekomityi ngokuba inaliti inyanzelwa phakathi kwilaphu.

This then provides limits to the extent to which rationalisation can take place in the design and construction of ships and shipbuilding costs can be reduced.
Le nto iye inike imilinganiselo okanye imiqathango apho ukuqiqa kufuneka kwenzeke kukuzotywa nokwakhiwa kweenqanawa kwakunye namaxabiso okwakhiwa kweenqanawa kunokuthotywa.

Professor Edmund Gunter, of Gresham College, had set out on a two-foot staff before 1624, very soon after Napier's invention of logarithms.

Unjingalazwi Edmund Gunter weziko mfundo iGreshaw.