potter
potter 英 [ˈpɒtə(r)] 美 [ˈpɑtə(r)]
n. 陶艺家，制陶工人 v. 游手好闲，闲混，虚度
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- If you regularly make bowls and mugs out of clay, you can call yourself a potter. Potters shape soft clay either by pinching it with their fingers or turning it on a wheel while pulling and squeezing the moving clay.
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- n. 陶艺家，制陶工人
- v. 游手好闲，闲混，虚度
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1. I spent the day pottering around the house.
我在家里逍遥了一天。
- 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. 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.
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