材料:烤硬的土
這一支就是核心畫面本身:那個東西是什麼做的。
noun · B2
A hard red-brown clay that has been baked until it is firm. It is left plain, with no shiny glaze on it, and it is used for plant pots, roof tiles, bricks and small statues.
陶土;赤陶
One way to hold terracotta: earth taken out of the ground, shaped, and baked in a hot oven until it is hard. What comes out is heavy, plain to the touch, and a warm red-brown. Everything this word does starts from that one object — the flower pot on a balcony — and then travels to the colour it happens to be.
Borrowed from Italian terra ('earth') + cotta ('baked'): baked earth.
來源是義大利文 terra(土)加 cotta(烤過的),字面就是「烤過的土」。這個字面幾乎等於它的核心畫面,所以整個字讀起來就是那個花盆本身。
Wiktionary entry for terracotta (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1076278061): "Borrowed from Italian terra ('earth') + cotta ('baked')."
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材料:烤硬的土
這一支就是核心畫面本身:那個東西是什麼做的。
noun · B2
A hard red-brown clay that has been baked until it is firm. It is left plain, with no shiny glaze on it, and it is used for plant pots, roof tiles, bricks and small statues.
陶土;赤陶
顏色:那個花盆的紅棕
材料的名字被拿去當顏色用,就像 orange、rose 一樣——先有東西,才有顏色名。到了這一支,那樣東西不必是陶做的了。
noun · B2
A warm red-brown colour — the colour of a plain baked clay pot.
陶土色;磚紅色