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

从陶工角度来看，它便宜还有另一个原因。

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

“激进陶工”：喜欢陶器在今天给感觉就像喜欢装饰桌巾一样激进。

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

所以我试着想起美索不达米亚陶工。

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转盘上制作——一种速度极快、精度极高、稳定性极好转盘。

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

他是唯一一位作品广为被奴役陶工。

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

陶工、磨坊、钟表，有很多不同途。

Few white potters did so then.

那时很少有白陶工这样做。

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

我们从陶工变成了更像运输东西。

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

所以陶工——重力使你保持在适当位置。

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粗制品。

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

他作为一名陶工灵巧程度显而易见：埃奇菲尔德没有其他能制作如此大罐。

'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！你头怎么样？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——从陶工纺车到让宇航员在太空中保持原位东西。

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

当一个死去时，钟声响起——这是一个信号， 告诉承办来把尸体抬到陶工田里。

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.

炉上有几个字母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。

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。 他手艺不亚于一个非常聪明陶工， 能够像我们现在一样， 陶器方式揉捏粘土。

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制造方法，但他们面前有所需产品模型，这刺激了他们这样做。

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事情，他甚至比在窑里工作陶工更像一个平民。

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.

陶工前面有一个扁平，他把软粘土放在上面，一边转，他就一边手，把粘土塑造成他想要形状。