3. These exquisitely ornate boxes and cabinets have been handmade and hand-painted by Indian craftspeople.
这些精美华丽的箱子和柜子都是印度工匠手工制作并 彩绘 的。
4. The beads they use are handmade in the Jura mountains in central France.
他们用的珠子是法国中部的侏罗山山民手工制作的。
5. Children's handcrafting activity has problem - solving - centered science inquiry value and expression - centered art value.
幼儿手工制作活动兼具以问题解决为中心的科学探究价值和以表达表现为中心的艺术表征价值.
6. Handcrafted in the U.S. A with 100 % lead - free pewter.
美国手工制作,材质为100%无铅白镴.
7. These two snail ring wire puzzles are hand made by my father.
这双蜗牛环是爸爸的手工制作的.
8. You have chosen a beautiful bowl. It's hand - made, traditional lacquer.
你选了一只漂亮的碗. 这是手工制作的, 传统瓷器.
9. Black lines are composed of complex designs, hand - made impossible.
由复杂线条构成的图案, 手工制作不可能.
10. Imitation of high quality pottery figurine, pure hand - made ceramic crafts, collectibles.
高仿精品陶俑, 纯手工制作陶工艺品, 收藏 品.
11. Our products are all handmade under the most stringent and hygienic conditions.
我们的巧克力都是在最严格和卫生的环境下用手工制作的.
12. He creates very ornate handles for the famous Finnish knives by hand.
这种手工制作的装饰有华丽手柄的刀在芬兰非常出名.
13. Oh, not too much. It'sounds reasonable, for those are hand - made.
还不太贵, 挺值的, 因为它们是手工制作的吗?
14. I a handmade coat and hat for the tsarina.
我有一套手工制作的大衣和帽子要送给皇后.
15. She goes to school each day, plays soccer, and enjoys craftmaking.
她每天去上学, 踢 足球 , 喜欢手工制作.
Anyone who has taken an axe to a laptop battery and thrown the bits in a pond (they explode: wear goggles) will like Mark Frauenfelder's book. Those who haven't will find a tantalising whiff of what they are missing. The author takes a hands-on approach to suburban life in Los Angeles. He rewires his espresso machine to produce what he calls proper coffee, keeps bees and chickens, whittles spoons from scrap wood, makes a ukulele and a cigar box from toothpicks, grows his own vegetables and tries to teach his children maths at home.
The lawn is the archetypal enemy. Why do Americans spend such huge amounts of time, money, water, fertiliser and fuel on growing a useless smooth expanse of grass? Much better to cultivate something useful, like tomatoes. But how to do it? Mr Frauenfelder considers using herbicide to kill his unwanted lawn, but settles for covering it thickly with newspaper and weeding any grass that grows through: as with many of his projects, it is fun to start with, but becomes laborious.
As the editor of Make, a magazine for American hobbyists, the author is well-placed to tap the nation's vein of frustrated creativity and fiddling. Time was, he says nostalgically, when household equipment came with the expectation that the owner could and would wield the tools required to fix it: a wrench, pliers, screwdriver and hammer were all that was needed to keep an early Ford automobile on the road. That changed, he says, thanks to Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Louis Bernays, the pioneer of emotional advertising. He sold dreams of perfection instead of a partnership between man and machine. Now domestic appliances come with forbidding labels, such as “no user-serviceable parts” and “disassembly voids warranty”.
For the mechanically curious, that is no obstacle. And in some ways technology has made it much easier to fiddle and fix. You can find unofficial instruction manuals on the internet, and watch YouTube to see someone doing it properly. You may make mistakes, but that is the way you learn how things work and how to mend them. Doing so makes you a better person, Mr Frauenfelder argues: master, not prisoner, of your environment.
The book echoes Matthew Crawford's masterly and reflective, “The Case for Working with Your Hands”, a bestseller in America which has just come out in Britain. Mr Crawford focuses on motorbikes, with doses of classical philosophy, rather than domestic gripes.
Mr Frauenfelder rightly highlights the impotent fury aroused by tamper-proof tabs seals, and the joy of mastering recalcitrant gadgets. But his own literary craftsmanship is irritating too. An ill-planned attempt to start a new life in the South Pacific is irrelevant and tiresome. His prose is tinny, and the mentions of his children dull and cutesy. The reader does feel sorry for his wife, though, when dead bees clog the light fittings and a coyote eats the favourite chickens. His motto is DIY . Hers is HAP (Hire a Pro). One can see why.