What does a typical day of work look like for an antiquarian horologist?

古董师一天的常规工作是什么样子的？

You might know her from our episode of " Infrequently Asked Questions, " but I am thrilled to be speaking with antiquarian horologist Nico Cox.

你可能在我们的“不常见的问题”系列节目中认识了她，但是我很高兴能和古董究者妮可·考克斯聊一聊。

Feed, but my dad worked in an antiquarian bookstore that was, like, high-scale.

喂，但我爸爸在一家高档的古董书店工作。

Their science had no system, and could have none, since its subject was merely antiquarian.

他们的科学没有系统， 也不可能有系统， 因为它的主题只是古董。

To a man living so much in the past, and so little in the present, as the secluded and antiquarian old bachelor, a century and a half seemed not so vast a period as to obviate the propriety of substituting right for wrong.

于一个生活在过去如此之多而现在如此之少的人来说，就像一个与世隔绝的古董老单身汉，一个半世纪的时间似乎并没有那么长，以至于可以避免以错代替的礼节。

Because you can imagine early antiquarians, if one of their workers stumbles across a bog body, the surprise and the amazement that these early writers must have had seeing it back several centuries ago.

因为你可以想象，早期的古物究者们，如果他们的工人偶然发现一具 bog body（泥炭人体），当时那些早期作家看到这种保存了数个世纪的人体遗骸时，该会感到多么震惊和惊叹。

English antiquarian William Thomas first defined folklore in a letter to the Athenian magazine in 1846. Some tales, such as the 14th century Welsh Mabinogion, have a religious or spiritual function.

英国古文物究者威廉·托马斯于1846年在一封致《雅典娜》杂志的信中首次定义了民俗学。 一些故事，如14世纪的威尔士《马比诺吉昂》，具有宗神层面的意义。

And so we contacted North Carolina archives and they said, so you mentioned like, yeah, as a professional researcher, I've worked at the New York public library, the American antiquarian society.

于是我们联系了北卡罗来纳州档案馆，他们说，你提到的那些，是的，作为一名专业究员，我曾在纽约公共图书馆和美国古文物学会工作过。

" Of course you do, " said Dick; " birds of a feather flock together; mathematics and antiquarian novels stand on much the same footing. But here he comes again" .

” 迪克说。 “物以类聚； 数学和古董小说站在几乎相同的基础上。 “你当然知道，但他又来了” 。

An ageing antiquarian in " The Stranger's Child" (2011) notes the way an Oxford don speaks with " snobbish reserve she hadn't wholly wanted to disown" .

2011 年的《陌生人的孩子》中，一位年迈的古董商注意到，一位牛津大学的授说话时带有“一种她并不想完全否认的势利矜持”。

It is from this period, according to the French antiquarians, that we are to date the institution of the magistrates and councils of cities in France.

根据法国古物学家的说法，正是从这一时期开始，我们可以确定法国城市的治安法官和议会的制度。

But just as the 17th century already saw the roots of the Enlightenment, so the 18th century had its fair share of socially conservative antiquarians.

然而，正如17世纪已见启蒙运动之萌芽，18世纪亦不乏社会保守的古文物究者。

It feels like the work of an antiquarian in a dressing gown, fishing up from memory snippets of past conversations, sightings and gossip.

这感觉就像是穿着晨衣的古物学家的作品，从过去的谈话、目击事件和八卦的记忆片段中挖掘出来。

By 1819, when trial by combat was removed from the UK statute book, it had become an antiquarian legal curiosity.

至1819年，随着决斗审判从英国法典中被废除，这一古老的法律奇观已然沦为历史学者的究象。

Antiquarians like John Albury, natural philosophers like William Petty, who John Milton and Andrew Marvel may have attended.

像约翰·阿尔伯里这样的古文物学者， 像威廉·佩蒂这样的自然哲学家，可能是约翰·弥尔顿和安德鲁·马维尔参加过他们的活动的人。

Luke said I had the mind of an antiquarian.

卢克说我有古董商的头脑。

They became sad, and their art (shall we say) antiquarian, and their efforts all really a kind of embalming – even though they also retained the old motive of their kind, the adornment of earth, and the healing of its hurts.

他们变得悲伤，他们的艺术（容我们说）古董，他们的努力都真的是一种防腐处理——尽管他们也保留了他们同类的旧动机，即装饰大地，治愈它的伤痛。

It's not just of antiquarian interest.

这不仅仅是古物的兴趣。

His astronomical and other scientific interests notwithstanding, he was above all an antiquarian, whose historical interests included ancient weights and measures.

尽管他天文学和其他科学领域感兴趣，但他首先是一个古董收藏家， 他的历史兴趣包括古代的度量衡。

Luckily we had, several years before, with the aid of our excellent resident antiquarian technician, reconstructed a machine capable of playing such tapes, and we immediately set about the painstaking work of transcription.

幸运的是，几年前，在我们优秀的常驻古物技术人员的帮助下，我们重建了一台能够播放此类磁带的机器，我们立即开始了艰苦的转录工作。