时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2009年


英语课

 The workshops are hidden throughout the narrow streets of Oltrarno. Artisans ply 1 trades learned not in schools but through apprenticeships and years of experience. Silversmith Donato Zaccaro has been creating silver furnishings and tableware for over three decades. One of his prized objects is a sterling 2 silver vase. It's made from three discs. The discs are molded into three pieces like a puzzle. 


The precision is very important here because they have to be absolutely identical. So if one piece becomes slightly different than the other, then it has to be scrapped 3.
Then Zaccaro's assistant solders 4 the pieces together. 
The joint 5 is invisible. 
Just a few blocks away, artisans prepare a marble-inlaid tabletop. Each piece has been hand cut, and fit within a larger piece. A coating has been applied 6 to even out the many joints 7, and then it's buffed to an even finish.
Marble inlay was perfected by Florentines around the end of the 16th century. Inlay artisans can be found around the world today, but it's Florentine work that's found in palaces across Europe, gifts over the centuries from grand dukes of the Medici family. 
In the same building, this man paints in what's known as scagliola imitation marble. The technique was perfected in Italy in the 17th century. It's most often painted on plaster. Originally intended as a cheap substitute for marble, it's now considered an art form in itself. And so it has gone all the way back to the Renaissance 8. Sunup to sundown, everyday, there is art in the alleyways of Oltrarno.
 
Oltrarno:part of the historic center of Florence, Italy
Medici family: a rich and powerful Italian family of bankers who ruled Florence from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and spent much of their money on art and on  providing financial support to artists

v.(搬运工等)等候顾客,弯曲
  • Taxis licensed to ply for hire at the railway station.许可计程车在火车站候客。
  • Ferryboats ply across the English Channel.渡船定期往返于英吉利海峡。
adj.英币的(纯粹的,货真价实的);n.英国货币(英镑)
  • Could you tell me the current rate for sterling, please?能否请您告诉我现行英国货币的兑换率?
  • Sterling has recently been strong,which will help to abate inflationary pressures.英国货币最近非常坚挺,这有助于减轻通胀压力。
废弃(scrap的过去式与过去分词); 打架
  • This machine is so old that it will soon have to be scrapped. 这架机器太旧,快报废了。
  • It had been thought that passport controls would be scrapped. 人们曾认为会放开护照管制。
n.焊料,焊锡( solder的名词复数 )v.(使)焊接,焊合( solder的第三人称单数 )
  • We fused the pipes with solders. 我们用焊锡熔接管子。 来自辞典例句
  • Solders ate a great number of potatoes during World War II. 第二次世界大战期间的士兵吃了很多的土豆。 来自互联网
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语)
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on gas mains. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在煤气的总管道上了。
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on steam pipes. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在蒸气管道上了。
n.复活,复兴,文艺复兴
  • The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。
  • The theme of the conference is renaissance Europe.大会的主题是文艺复兴时期的欧洲。
学英语单词
a sight of
ad dibdibah plain
Adelavin
angle of trajectory
astigmope
bergenite
blacksmith's daughter
bottled
Cape walnut
catalytic process
cell-based
Champex
closed-in drill-pipe pressure
complementation law
cortical sensibility
cross section leveling
ctenogobiops feroculus
cut-in relay
cylinder sheller
degree of lodging
deterministic schedule
diaminophenazine
dicaprin
diffugenin
Dithiazid
double banking width limit
dust the floor with someone
Elettaria
enside
eridanians
family mustelidaes
feevee
fettling knife
Filatov's disease
gastroduodenostomy
geometric optics model
goldplated
Granite Falls
hand on your heart
Heldai
hour-glass accentuated
in the way of
inlet compensator
input file code
interior drainage
Laurence-Moon syndrome
liquid globule
low foaming
marine pulley
matrix product
medial s's
metal catalyzer
metameconic
metasomatic pseudomorph
method of data capture
N'-tosyl-EDDA
netpreneur
nictitating membrance
noghri
noncapacitive
normal plate anemometer
Nuboai
off-normal dilution water flow
over-consolidated soil
pairwise uncorrelated
parquetage
Pennatae
personal flotation device
phomopsis terminaliae
pill tile
piqu? tourne en dehors
pontal flexure
prefix sign
Pretium Affectionis
progression cutting
psammites
QKt
quinarity
ratio of greater inequality
rear wall frame
recirculation operation
Rivinus's gland
round bottom flask
Sedum middendorffianum
shear stress gradient
side-loader
spherodizing
spicket
steam gauge stand
subinflammatory
tear out of
technical features
temeliyeh (temileh)
tifle
Tigrinispora
tow-levels
transcarbamoylase
undressings
variable star
volumetric stress
wowl
X.25 packet switched data network