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

从陶工的角度来看，它便宜还有另一个原因。

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.

陶工前面有一个扁平的轮子，他把软粘土放在上面，轮子一边转，他就一边用手，把粘土他想要的形状。

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.

炉子上有几个字母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。

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——一种速度极快、精度极高、稳定性极好的转盘。

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

“激进的陶工”：喜欢陶器在今天给人的感觉就像喜欢装饰桌巾一样激进。

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.

为了制作这个，陶工使用了一种稍微贵一点的原料，这种原料是由粘土和燧石混合而的，这种混合物在更高的温度下烧制，结果是原料变了的。

So what do a potter, a farmer and a botanist have in common?

那么，陶工、农夫和植物学家有什么共同点呢？

(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：我们甚至有一个第八代本地陶工国家，这个地区的人们已想出了一些这个国家最好的发明，他们没有时间转动岩石并想知道下面是什么。

His craft was not beyond that of a very clever potter, capable of kneading clay beings in the manner of pots, such as we men are now.

技术更娴熟。 他的手艺不亚于一个非常聪明的陶工， 能够像我们现在的人一样， 用陶器的方式揉捏粘土。

And in Diyar, there were a group of potters who had become specialists in making these particular sort of water pots called jidaga.

而在迪亚尔，有一群陶工专门制作一种称为吉达加的水罐。

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

当一个人死去时，钟声响起——这是一个信号， 告诉承办人来把尸体抬到陶工的田里。

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、马车制商和陶工为他提供了他们当地技能的粗制品。

Potters, mills, clocks, there are just so many different uses for a wheel.

陶工、磨坊、钟表，轮子有很多不同的用途。

They burned my body on the green until I was nothing but blackened charcoal, and they popped me in a hole in the potter's field without so much as a headstone to mark my name.

他们在绿地上焚烧我的尸体， 直到我只剩下发黑的木炭，他们把我扔进了陶工田的一个洞里， 连一块墓碑都没有来记下我的名字。

Instead, he always attended to matters related to the creation of imperial ware in person, and he was even more like a commoner than the potters working at the kilns.

相反，他总是亲自处理与制作御器有关的事情，他甚至比在窑里工作的陶工更像一个平民。

Thus, European potters had to reinvent Chinese manufacturing methods for themselves, but they were stimulated to do so by having models of the desired product before them.

因此，欧洲陶工必须为自己重新发明中国的制方法，但他们面前有所需产品的模型，这刺激了他们这样做。

'Hey, Potter! Potter! How's your head? You feeling all right? Sure you're not going to go berserk on us? '

“嘿，波特！陶工！你的头怎么样？您感觉还好吗？你确定不会对我们发疯吗？

Weavers, shoemakers, clog makers and pottery.

织工、鞋匠、木屐匠和陶工。

Few white potters did so then.

那时很少有白人陶工这样做。

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

他是唯一一位作品广为人知的被奴役陶工。