The Potteries is a district in Staffordshire, in the English Midlands, famous for making china and pottery. People say the Potteries as a place name, with a capital P, the way they say the Midlands.

The Potteries is a district in Staffordshire波特里斯是斯塔福德郡的一個地區, in the English Midlands位於英格蘭中部, famous for making china and pottery以製作瓷器和陶器聞名。 People say the Potteries as a place name大家把 the Potteries 當作一個地名來說, with a capital P字首用大寫 P, the way they say the Midlands就像講 the Midlands（英格蘭中部）那樣。

It centres on Stoke-on-Trent and the old pottery towns around it — the kind of place where factory chimneys and famous tableware names belong to local history, not just to a shop. You meet it in British geography, industrial history, and football chat more than in American English.

It centres on Stoke-on-Trent它的中心是 Stoke-on-Trent and the old pottery towns around it以及周圍那些老陶器城鎮 — the kind of place where factory chimneys and famous tableware names belong to local history這種地方的工廠煙囪和知名餐具品牌名，都是屬於當地歷史的一部分, not just to a shop而不只是店裡的商品而已。 You meet it in British geography, industrial history, and football chat你會在英國地理、工業史，還有足球話題裡遇到這個字 more than in American English而不太會在美式英文裡出現。

Though actually it is not “any area with potteries” and not the ordinary plural of pottery (plates, vases). Those potteries are factories; the Potteries is the region. The name stuck because that trade shaped the towns.

Though actually it is not “any area with potteries”不過其實它並不是「任何有陶器廠的地區」 and not the ordinary plural of pottery (plates, vases)也不是 pottery（陶器，如盤子、花瓶）的普通複數。 Those potteries are factories那些（小寫的）potteries 指的是工廠; the Potteries is the region而（大寫的）the Potteries 指的是那個地區。 The name stuck because that trade shaped the towns這個名字會留下來，是因為那個產業塑造了這些城鎮。