" If I were you I'd have a lathe" .

" 我要是你，我就玩玩！"

The lathe is the machine that cuts the lacquer.

是切漆的机器。

The programmer is also an important part of the lathe.

编程器也是的重要组成部分。

And he once more ran off to the captain. The latter was going back to see his lathe again.

他又向着消防队长跑去。 队长正要回家。他要回去看看他的。

Standing at the lathe as Mr Sillitoe had stood, they dreamed of “marvellous things”.

如同西利托往日那样，站在旁边的他们也会想着那些“绝妙的事物”。

But it was impossible because of the lathe to hear what she was saying.

但是转得太响，不太可能听清楚她在讲些什么。

He also made the tools that made them, except for the lathes and turning engines.

用来作这些零件的工具都是他自己做的——用来发动引擎的除外。

'You can make anything with a lathe and a knife.

“你可以用和刀何东西。

Lathes make wheels, or, more precisely, they make cylindrical objects.

【precisely】可以削轮子，更确切地说，可以削圆柱形物体。

They are not round.' So Anders took the skulls and put them on the lathe.

它们不是圆的。于是安德斯拿起头骨并将它们放在上。

Then he took the skulls and put them in the lathe and turned them till they were round.

然后他把头骨放在上， 削成圆形。

Then he answered: 'Then I ask for a fire, a turning lathe, and a cutting-board with the knife'.

然后他回答说：“那么我要一把火、一台和一个带刀的砧板” 。

Someone making pottery on a lathe (Tamilan pugal CC BY-SA 4.0) A lathe is a tool that turns something around.

有人在上作陶器（Tamilan pugal CC BY-SA 4.0）是一种可以转动物体的工具。

They are round and regular as if turned in a lathe, excepting the butt cuts, which have a few buttressing projections.

它们是圆形和规则的， 就像在上削一样， 除了对接切口外， 它有一些支撑突起。

So when you make pottery—jugs, glasses, plates and so on—out of clay, you use a lathe to turn the clay around.

因此，当你用粘土作陶器（罐子、玻璃杯、盘子等）时，你需要使用来转动粘土。

And I need the fire to keep warm, of course.' So the King sent him to the castle with a fire, a lathe, and a knife.

当然，我需要火来取暖。”于是国王派他带着火、和刀来到城堡。

Most people these days will never use a lathe, because most people don't make pottery, but in the past, lathes were a very important tool.

现在大多数人永远不会使用，因为大多数人不作陶器，但在过去，是非常重要的工具。