potter是什么意思

potter

英 ['p?t?] 美 ['pɑt?]

potter 陶工

來自pot,壺，罐子，陶器，-er,表施動。

potter: potter: see put
potter (n.): "maker of pots" (they also sometimes doubled as bell-founders), late Old English pottere "potter," reinforced by Old French potier "potter," both from the root of pot (n.1). As a surname from late 12c. Potter's field (1520s) is Biblical, a ground where clay suitable for pottery was dug, later purchased by high priests of Jerusalem as a burying ground for strangers, criminals, and the poor (Matt. xxvii:7). An older Old English word for "potter" was crocwyrhta "crock-wright."
potter (v.): "occupy oneself in a trifling way," 1740, earlier "to poke again and again" (1520s), frequentative of obsolete verb poten "to push, poke," from Old English potian "to push" (see put (v.)). Related: Pottered; pottering.

1. As the wheel turned, the potter shaped the clay.: 輪子一邊轉(zhuǎn)動，制陶工人一邊拉坯。

2. The story is told through the eyes of Inspector Simon Potter.: 這個故事是從西蒙·波特巡官的視角講述的。

3. Potter had argued that the government coerced him into pleading guilty.: 波特辯稱是政府強迫他認(rèn)罪的。