" The Radical Potter" : fancy pottery today feels about as radical as a doily.

“激进的陶工”：喜欢陶器在的感觉就像喜欢装饰桌巾样激进。

All we can say is that they were made on a potter's wheel, an extremely fast, accurate, and stable one.

我们只能说它们是在陶工的转盘上制作的——种速度极快、精度极高、稳定性极好的转盘。

He is the only enslaved potter with a known body of work.

他是唯位作品广为知的被奴役陶工。

Few white potters did so then.

那时很少有陶工这样做。

Smiths, hatters, weavers, wagon-makers, and potters at neighboring towns supplied him with the rough products of their native skill.

附近城镇的铁匠、帽匠、织布工、马车制造商和陶工为他提供了他们当地技能的粗制品。

His dexterity as a potter is clear: no one else in Edgefield made jars so big.

他作为名陶工的灵巧程度显而易见：埃奇菲尔德没有其他能制作如此大的罐子。

When one died, the bell tolled—a signal to the undertaker to come and bear away the body to the potter's field.

当死去时，钟声响起——这是信号， 告诉承办来把尸体抬到陶工的田里。

On the stove were the letters A.R.H., for it was the work of a great potter, Augustin Hirschvogel, who always signed his work in that way.

炉子上有几字母A.R.H.，因为这是伟大的陶工奥古斯汀·赫施沃格尔的作品，他总是以这种方式在作品上签上自己的名字。

He has a flat wheel in front of him on which he places the soft lump of clay, and as it spins round he moulds it with his hands into any shape he likes.

陶工前面有扁平的轮子，他把软粘土放在上面，轮子边转，他就边用手，把粘土塑造成他想要的形状。

(Laughter) RI: We even had an eighth-generation local potter state that people from this region have come up with some of this nation's best inventions, and they don't have time to turn rocks and wonder what is under.

（笑声） RI：我们甚至有第八代本地陶工国家，这地区的们已经想出了些这国家最好的发明，他们没有时间转动岩石并想知道下面是什么。