potter
英 [ˈpɒtə(r)]
美 [ˈpɑːtər]
v. 从容做事; 欣然从事; 漫步; 闲荡
n. 陶工
复数:potters 现在分词:pottering 过去式:pottered 第三人称单数:potters 过去分词:pottered
Collins.2 / BNC.9074 / COCA.27631
短语动词
potter aboutpotter around
1. 悠闲地做些琐碎事;慢条斯理地干轻松活儿
牛津词典
verb
- 从容做事;欣然从事;漫步;闲荡
to do things or move without hurrying, especially when you are doing sth that you enjoy and that is not important- I spent the day pottering around the house.
我在家里逍遥了一天。
- I spent the day pottering around the house.
noun
- 陶工
a person who makes clay pots by hand
柯林斯词典
- 陶工;制陶工人
Apotteris someone who makes pottery.
英英释义
noun
- a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln
verb
- move around aimlessly
- do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
- The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house
- work lightly
- The old lady is pottering around in the garden
双语例句
- Having dreamed up Potter on a train, This time I was on a plane.
曾经梦见波特在火车上,这次我是在飞机上。 - Potter had argued that the government coerced him into pleading guilty
波特辩称是政府强迫他认罪的。 - I knew my brother, Potter.
我了解我的哥哥,波特。 - In a small village, there lived a potter. He had a donkey.
在一个小村庄里住着一位陶工,他养了一头驴。 - The potter shaped and squeezed the lump of clay into a graceful shape.
制陶工人把黏土块捏塑成优美的形状。 - Potter had devised a system of mechanically searching these indexes.
波特设计了一种机械查找索引的系统。 - Maybe Potter crashed and was hurt.
也有可能是波特掉了下来受了伤。 - The story is told through the eyes of Inspector Simon Potter.
这个故事是从西蒙·波特巡官的视角讲述的。 - Bob: I get enough of Harry Potter from my children.
鲍伯:我的小孩让我受够了《哈利波特》。 - He held a brush in his hand, and, with all his airy superiority gone, he brushed potter's new clothes as the latter slowly turned this way and that way.
他手里拿着一把刷子,原先那傲慢的神气全不见了;他替波特刷身上的新衣,波特则缓缓地、时左时右地转动着身子。