Take Mansukh Prajapati, a potter in India.

名为Mansukh Prajapati 印度陶艺家例子吧。

" I remember before we were married he used to potter about with a paint-box. But you never saw such daubs. We used to chaff him. He had absolutely no gift for anything like that. "

" 我记得在我们结婚以前他常常带着颜料盒到处跑。可是他画画儿要多难看有多难看。我们常常打趣他。他对这种事可以说点才能也没有。"

“You — Potter — why didn't you tell him not to add the quills? Thought he'd make you look good if he got it wrong, did you? That's another point you've lost for Gryffindor.”

“波特，你为什么不告诉他不要加进豪猪刺呢？你以为他出了错就显出你好吗？格兰芬多又因为你丢了分。”

From the potter's point of view there was another reason for its cheapness.

从陶工角度来看，它便宜还有另原因。

He creates his products on a machine called a potter's wheel.

他在种叫做陶轮机器上生产产品。

Bennett's world is one in which women stay at home, tea is made by servants and people entertain themselves by playing cards and " pottering" .

在本涅特世界里，女待在家里，茶水由佣泡好，们通过打牌和“闲逛”来娱乐自己。

So what's the story about this time? The sixth Potter film explores the past of the series' chief antagonist, Lord Voldemort, as well as the growing pains of adolescence.

那么这次影片中讲又是什么故事呢？哈利·波特电影第六部讲述了该系列电影中主要反派物——伏地魔——过去，以及他青年时期成长中经历苦痛。

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.，因为这是伟大陶工奥古斯汀·赫施沃格尔作品，他总是以这种方式在作品上签上自己名字。

Then she solved crosswords with her legs drawn up beneath her on the sofa while Ove pottered about in the toolshed and watched the news.

然后她坐到靠椅上垂着毫无双腿解填字游戏，这时候欧维就去外面储藏室捣鼓阵或者看会儿新闻。

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转盘上制作——种速度极快、精度极高、稳定性极好转盘。

All were busy at home, John absent till night, and nothing to do but sew, or read, or potter about.

家都在忙着，约翰要到晚上才回来，除了做做针线、阅读或是闲荡简直无事可做。

To the Old World of art, Europe, where the veterans of modernism, Salvador Dali, Picasso, were still pottering around to ever less effect.

而那有着众多现代主义高手，如萨尔瓦多，达利，毕加索等欧洲旧艺术圈子，仍然在影响力日渐衰微路上徘徊。

Now, for this, the potter used a slightly more expensive raw material, which was made by combining clay and flint, and this mixture was fired at a far higher heat, with the result that the ingredients vitrified.

为了制作这，陶工使用了种稍微贵点原料，这种原料是由粘土和燧石混合而成，这种混合物在更高温度下烧制，结果是原料变成了玻璃化。

" Very well, very well. Potter, " said Snape, " we shall resume this lesson tomorrow evening instead."

“很好，很好。波特，”斯内普说，“我们明天晚上再接着上这课。”

I feel like, as a potter, you also start to learn how to shape the world.

我认为，作为名陶艺家，你也要逐渐学着 去塑造我们世界。

In some ways, it feels very much like I'm a potter, that we tackle the things that are at our wheel, we try with the skill that we have to think about this next bowl that I want to make.

再到文化区， 直至整城市。在每次尝试上，我都有 自己需要不断学习盲区。我原先从未学过如此之多 和区域法律有关识。我也不曾设想过有天 我会不得不面对这些识。

My mom was also a potter, but she also was a sculptor.

我妈妈也是位陶艺家，但她也是位雕塑家。

You not supposed to wear white in water, potter!

你不应该在水里穿白色衣服， 波特！

And actually, my God, I'm surrounded by potters.

实际上，天哪，我被陶艺家们包围了。

Anneliese is at home, pottering about in her apartment.

安妮莉丝在家中，悠闲地在她小公寓里忙活着。