6.The men who make it are craftsmen: the millwright, the watchmaker, the canal builder, the blacksmith.What makes the Industrial Revolution so peculiarly English is that it is rooted in the countryside.
7.A blacksmith once said to me, when…asked why her was not both blacksmith and whitesmith, "The smith that will meddle with all things may go shoe the gosling."
有一回,我问一铁匠,为什么不同时兼做锡匠,他对我说:“样样都搞的工匠结果将一无所成。”
8.A blacksmith once said to me, when…asked why he was not both blacksmith and whitesmith, "The smith that will meddle with all things may go shoe the gosling."
有一回,我问一铁匠,为什么不同时兼做锡匠,他对我说:“样样都搞的工匠结果将一无所成。”
9.This novel was writen in his later lifePip, a boy of the marshes, is being "raised by hand" by his shrieking harridan of an older sister and her seemingly doltish husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery.