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

从陶工的角度来看，它便宜还有另个原因。

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

“进的陶工”：喜欢陶器在今天给的感觉就像喜欢装饰桌巾进。

So I'm trying to think of the Mesopotamian potters.

所以我试着想起美索不达米亚的陶工。

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——种速度极快、精度极高、稳定性极好的转盘。

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

他是唯位作品广为知的被奴役陶工。

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

陶工、磨坊、钟表，轮子有很多不同的途。

Few white potters did so then.

那时很少有白陶工这做。

We went from a potter's wheel to maybe something that was more like a wheel for transport.

我们从陶工的轮子变成了更像运输轮子的东西。

So the potter's wheel - gravity's keeping your wheel in place.

所以陶工的轮子——重力使你的轮子保持在适当的位置。

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、马车制造商和陶工为他提供了他们当地技能的粗制品。

His dexterity as a potter is clear: no one else in Edgefield made jars so big.

他作为名陶工的灵巧程度显而易见：埃奇菲尔德没有其他能制作如此大的罐子。

'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？您感觉还好吗？你确定不会对我们发疯吗？

That's fascinating - so all the way from a potter's spinning wheel to something that keeps astronauts in place in space.

这太令着迷了——从陶工的纺车到让宇航员在太空中保持原位的东西。

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

当个死去时，钟声响起——这是个信号， 告诉承办来把尸体抬到陶工的田里。

There was more food to be grown but also to be stored, and the potters were struggling to keep up with demand.

有更多的粮食需要种植和储存，陶工们正在努力满足需求。

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。

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。 他的手艺不亚于个非常聪明的陶工， 能够像我们现在的， 陶器的方式揉捏粘土。

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造方法，但他们面前有所需产品的模型，这刺了他们这做。

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个平民。

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.

陶工前面有个扁平的轮子，他把软粘土放在上面，轮子边转，他就边手，把粘土塑造成他想要的形状。