temper of the clay 中文意思是什麼

temper of the clay 解釋
粘土的硬度
  • temper : n 1 氣質;性情,脾氣。2 情緒,心情;激動的情緒,激憤,暴躁。3 特徵,傾向。4 (黏土的)黏度;(灰...
  • of : OF =Old French 古法語。
  • the : 〈代表用法〉…那樣的東西,…那種東西。1 〈用單數普通名詞代表它的一類時(所謂代表的單數)〉 (a) 〈...
  • clay : n 克萊〈男子名,Clayton 的昵稱〉。n 1 黏土;泥土。2 (相對于靈魂而言的)人體,肉體;資質,天性。3...
  1. The temper of the clay was right for shaping.

    這粘土的硬度適于塑形了。
  2. It would make the reader pity me, or rather laugh at me, to tell how many awkward ways i took to raise this paste, what odd mishapen ugly things i made, how many of them fell in, and how many fell out, the clay not being stiff enough to bear its own weight ; how many crack d by the over violent heat of the sun, being set out too hastily ; and how many fell in pieces with only removing, as well before as after they were dry d ; and in a word, how after having labour d hard to find the clay, to dig it, to temper it, to bring it home and work it ; i could not make above two large earthern ugly things, i cannot call them jarrs, in about two months labour

    我不知用了多少笨拙的方法去調合陶土,也不知做出了多少奇形怪狀的醜陋的傢伙有多少因為陶土太軟,吃不住本身的重量,不是凹進去,就是凸出來。根本不合用又有多少因為曬得太早,太陽熱力過猛而曬裂了也有多少在曬干后一搬動就碎裂了。一句話,我費了很大的力氣去找陶土,找到后把土挖出來,調合好,運回家,再做成泥甕。
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