实战口语情景对话 第335期:Knitting 编织

 　　Adrienne: So we just had Christmas and I see your knitting bag is out, did you knit anything for anyone for Christmas?

　　埃德里安娜：我们刚刚过了圣诞节，我看到你的编织袋了，你在圣诞节的时候给谁织东西了吗？

　　Vivian: I started to knit for my granddaughters, but time caught up with me and I was making for them a poncho¹ which consisted of two pieces, two oblong pieces which I will put together and make a poncho.

　　薇薇安：我开始给我的孙女们织东西，但是时间太赶了，我正在给她们织斗篷，斗篷包含两片，两个矩形，我会把它们组合在一起做成个斗篷。

　　Adrienne: That sounds pretty I think, but what will it look like when it's finished? Can you describe it?

　　埃德里安娜：那听起来真不错，可是那个斗篷完成的时候是什么样子的？你能形容一下吗？

　　Vivian: A poncho is sort of like a shawl, only it is closed. You can wear it like a sweater. You pull it over your head but you don't have any arms. You just have the shawl affect.

　　薇薇安：斗篷有点像披肩，只不过斗篷是闭合的。你穿上的时候就像个毛衣一样。你把斗篷从头部套入，不过斗篷没有袖子。就和披肩的效果是一样的。

　　Adrienne: Oh, I've seen those. Those are actually quite popular now. So what colors did you make?

　　埃德里安娜：哦，我看到过那种斗篷。现在斗篷非常流行。那你织的斗篷是什么颜色的？

　　Vivian: I made a mixture of sand colors that's tan and browns and darker browns, sort of a mixture. It's a nice pretty soft yarn² in the same colors. It just blends in.

　　薇薇安：我用了多种颜色，有棕褐色、棕色和深棕色，多种颜色的混合。还有相同颜色的柔软的纱线。它们很好的融合在一起。

　　Adrienne: Oh, sounds great. I'm sure your granddaughter will love that. What else did you start to make?

　　埃德里安娜：听起来真棒。我确定你的孙女们会喜欢的。你还有织别的东西吗？

　　Vivian: Well, I wanted to make also, I bought some ponchos³ and I started to put an edging around them but with crocheting⁴, but it didn't look right.

　　薇薇安：嗯，我想，我买了一些斗篷，然后用钩针给斗篷做边饰，不过看起来不太好。

　　Adrienne: What's crocheting?

　　埃德里安娜：钩针是什么？

　　Vivian: Crocheting is another needle, single needle, that you stick into the wool, and use a thread and you pull it through and you can make decoration on anything that you have knitted, only you use a different needle, and a different method of decoration, but it didn't look right so I pulled it all out and it was fun trying out those things.

　　薇薇安：钩针是另一种编织针，是单针，可以穿过羊毛，你用线穿过羊毛，就可以为你编织的东西进行装饰，这只是用另一种编织针，采取另一种装饰方法，不过我做的看起来不太好，所以我把它们都拆了，不过尝试这些事情很有乐趣。

　　Adrienne: So when will you finish the, all of these projects do you think? Do you have a deadline?

　　埃德里安娜：那你认为你什么时候可以完成所有的这些编织呢？你有截止时间吗？

　　Vivian: Yes, I do, very shortly, I'm almost through.

　　薇薇安：有啊，很快，我已经快完成了。

1 poncho   

n.斗篷，雨衣

参考例句：

• He yawned and curled his body down farther beneath the poncho.他打了个呵欠，把身子再蜷拢点儿，往雨披里缩了缩。
• The poncho is made of nylon.这雨披是用尼龙制造的。

2 yarn   

n.纱，纱线，纺线；奇闻漫谈，旅行轶事

参考例句：

• I stopped to have a yarn with him.我停下来跟他聊天。
• The basic structural unit of yarn is the fiber.纤维是纱的基本结构单元。

3 ponchos   

n.斗篷( poncho的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The men cast off their packs, withdrew their ponchos and set up their pup tents again. 大家扔下了背包，取出了雨披，把小帐篷重又架了起来。 来自辞典例句

4 crocheting   

v.用钩针编织( crochet的现在分词 )；钩编

参考例句：

• She sat there crocheting all day. 她整天坐在那里用钩针编织东西。 来自互联网
• The crafts teacher is skillful in knitting,crocheting,embroidery,and the use of the hand loom. 手工艺教师善于纺织、钩编、刺绣和使用手摇织布机。 来自互联网