Pick one up and in its lines you can trace trade routes and chronicle empires.

拿起一个陶罐，在它的线条中，你可以寻迹追溯贸易路线和帝国的历史。

And examples of ceramics are everyday things like earthenware pots, crockery, glassware and even concrete.

陶瓷的例子是日常用品，如陶罐、陶器、玻璃器皿甚至混凝土。

" They like pots and jewelry and gold and stuff like that."

“他们喜欢陶罐、珠宝、黄金之类的东西。”

After the olives had been pressed, the oil was stored in big pottery jars.

好后，油就储存在大陶罐里。

From small animal tunnels throughout the excavation site, and ceramic containers that looked like, they stored grain, the researchers were pretty sure that this village had a rodent problem.

从小型动物地洞遍布考古挖掘场地，到看起来像是用陶罐储存谷物，研究员们很确定这个村庄有着鼠害问题。

The rise and fall of Rome can be charted in the words of its historians, but it is observed more accurately in the rise and fall of the Roman pot trade.

罗马的兴衰可以用历史学家的文字描绘出来，但从罗马陶罐的兴衰中来观察它更为准确。

Oh look, I can't believe this. Look, homo habilus hasn't even learned how to use tools yet and they've got him here wi, with clay pots. Why don't, why don't they just give him a microwave?

看，我真不敢相信。能人根本还没学会使用工具，他们竟然还给他陶罐。不如给他一个微波炉算了！

Because you are flashing back to every family event that ended with Dad whisper-screaming at Mom, " Would you calm down? " while she would swing her pocketbook around until it burst open like a pill-packed pinata.

因为你正回想起过去的每一次家族聚会最后都是爸爸用气音吼妈妈说" 你冷静点" ，而她都会狂甩手拿包，直到包包像墨西哥陶罐一样爆开，掉出一堆药丸。

The Double-layered Pottery Pot with Design and Petal-shaped Foot, for instance, is decorated with delicate triangles, circles and petal patterns on its body and bottom, showing the aesthetic tastes of the Songze people.

如双层花脚陶罐，壶身和壶底装饰着精致的三角形、圆形和花瓣图案，体现了崧泽人的审美情趣。

Now, you can totally keep this going in here, but for wok seasoning management, we personally chose to swap this into a claypot.

你完全可以就用这个锅继续烹制，但考虑到炒锅不容易让食材入味，我个人更愿意把食材倒入陶罐中。

In a Stanford University design experiment, a pottery teacher split the class into two groups: The first group focused on making as many clay pots as they wanted.

在斯坦福大学的一个设计实验中，一位陶艺老师把学生分成两组：第一组专注于做出尽可能多的陶罐。

The basket-like markings on this and other Japanese pots of the same time, are in a cord pattern and that's in fact what their name is in Japanese.

这种仿照竹篮纹理的花纹，在这件陶器及其同期日本陶罐上都可以找到，被人们称之为绳纹，事实上它们的命名在日文里就是这意思。

They drink from splendid pottery vessels, and their wives and daughters wear jewelry made of colored stones, and even gold.

他们用漂亮的陶罐饮水，他们的妻子和女儿戴着用彩色石块，甚至金子做成的首饰。

Shops on every side were selling sandalwood paste and clarified butter oil for dead bodies, tiny clay urns for ashes.

四面八方的商店都在卖檀香膏和用来装尸体的澄清黄油油，还有用来装骨灰的小陶罐。

The Romans, besides tossing broken amphorae around in an uninhibited way, pioneered a fraught invention: sewers.

古罗马人除了将陶罐随手乱丢之外，还首创了一种危险的发明：下水道。

I learnt to make pots to keep my food in.

我学会做陶罐存放我的食物。

You will easily believe that Midas lost no time in snatching up a great earthen pitcher (but, alas! it was no longer earthen after he touched it) and in hastening to the riverside.

你会很容易相信迈达斯很快就抓到了一个大陶罐(但是，唉! 他摸了摸它，发现它已经不再是泥土了)，便急忙跑到河边。

In his extensive excavations, Evans uncovered the remains of a vast building complex; finding pottery and jewellery, carved stone seals, ivory, gold and bronze, and colourful frescoes, often depicting bulls.

在全面挖掘的过程中，亚瑟发现了一座大型建筑的遗址，其中的陶罐、珠宝、雕刻石章、象牙、 黄金、青铜以及彩色的壁画中常有公牛的形象。

All the best pots came from students that made many pots, not those that tried making one single winning piece of art.

所有最好的陶罐都来自那些做了很多陶罐的学生，而不是那些只做了一件获奖作品的学生。

The history of pots matters because they do.

陶罐的历史之所以重要，是因为它们确实如此。