Potter
['pɒtə] or ['pɑtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln.
(verb.) work lightly; 'The old lady is pottering around in the garden'.
亨利錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.
(n.) One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
(n.) One who pots meats or other eatables.
(n.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.
(v. i.) To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.
(v. i.) To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.
(v. t.) To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.
安格斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Trifle, PUTTER, busy one's self about trifles.
手打:米米
解釋/意思:
v.i. to be fussily engaged about trifles: to loiter.—n. Pott′erer.
n. one who makes earthenware.—n. Pott′ery earthenware vessels: a place where earthenware is manufactured: the business of a potter.—Potter's clay clay used in the making of earthenware; Potter's field a burial-place for strangers (Matt. xxvii. 7); Potter's wheel a horizontal wheel on which clay vessels are shaped.
格思里整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a potter, denotes constant employment, with satisfactory results. For a young woman to see a potter, foretells she will enjoy pleasant engagements.
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例句/造句/用法:
- In fact, Potter and Willcox were the only division commanders Burnside had who were equal to the occasion. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Potter joined Hancock by way of the wooden bridge. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- And the result will be that he becomes a worse potter? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Among other celebrated inventors of printing presses in the United States were Isaac Adams, Taylor, Gordon, Potter, Hawkins, Bullock, Cottrell, Campbell, Babcock, and Firm. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It is impossible, after reading them, not to consider the poor potter one of the greatest writers of the French language. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The process is as follows: When a potter becomes rich, will he, think you, any longer take the same pains with his art? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Charles Aoisseau, the potter of Tours, born in 1796, rediscovered and revived the art of Palissy. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- There were men who worked wood and leather, potters and carvers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Did you never observe in the arts how the potters' boys look on and help, long before they touch the wheel? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Heat distorts articles made of potters' clay after they have been hardened by cold. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Parents will take their children to look on at a battle, just as potters' boys are trained to the business by looking on at the wheel. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- By th' twenty-first, I reckon, he'll be pottered in his brains how to get 'em done in time. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
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