Imagine it with a lump of clay.

让我们把球想像成 一块软软的黏土。

Let us ask the men in the clay-pit to give us a lump of clay.

咱们朝挖粘土的人要一块粘土吧。

We shall next put our lump of clay in the oven, and let it dry for several hours.

然后，我们把那个粘土大块，放进炉子里，烤上几个小时。

We shall take this lump of clay to a brick-maker, and ask him to bake it for us in his kiln.

把这块粘土拿给烧砖的工人，让他在砖窑里给我们烧一遍。

Kind of like a lump of clay with a bow tie.

可以说是块戴领结的黏土 任人搓圆按扁。

Hey, I don't tell you how to impersonate a lump of clay.

我不说你胖成球。

The artist took a lump of clay and turned it into a beautiful pot.

艺术家拿了一团粘土 把它变成了一个漂亮的罐子。

Usually, if you dump mass onto an object it gets bigger: take two lumps of clay and smush them together and you get one more massive, slightly larger lump.

通常，如果你把质量加到一个物体上，它就会变大：拿两个粘土块，把它们压在一起，你就会得到一个重的、稍微大一点的土块。

Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

窑匠难道没有权柄从一团泥里拿一块作成贵重的器皿，又拿一块作成卑贱的器皿吗？

So as the lump of clay goes back and forth from one person to another, reworked, reshaped, and always changing, it's no wonder our messages sometimes turn into a mush of miscommunication.

当黏土块在人们之间，不断传递，重塑，变形，难怪我们的讯息有时会变成 一堆交流不畅的烂泥巴。

I couldn't center my clay and so I asked the instructor if I could just take a lump of clay and go sit off on another table and just try to make something.

但我甚至不能捏好黏土，所以我问老师能不能拿一块粘土坐在另一张桌子上试着做点什么。

He has a flat wheel in front of him on which he places the soft lump of clay, and as it spins round he moulds it with his hands into any shape he likes.

陶工前面有一个扁平的轮子，他把软粘土放在上面，轮子一边转，他就一边用手，把粘土塑造成他想要的形状。