VOA慢速英语2021--传统的陶工回忆福岛灾难

Traditional Potter Remembers Fukushima Disaster

On March 11, 2011, Toshiharu Onoda had just finished preparing pottery¹ at his workshop in the town of Namie close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when a huge earthquake struck.

Onoda and many others were forced to flee as a tsunami² destroyed part of the nuclear center releasing³ radiation into the area.

Onoda's workshop was left in ruins.

Ten years later, Onoda has returned to the town of Namie in Fukushima.

But, Onoda says, everything about the town has changed.

Half of his fellow potters have quit. About 80 percent of the town still remains⁴ off-limits because of high radiation levels.

Even the materials used to make the clay containers can no longer be gathered and processed there.

But with all the loss he has experienced⁵, Onoda has continued the Oborisoma-yaki pottery tradition now in its 13th generation.

"I would like to pass Oborisoma-yaki, a tradition with a history of more than 300 years to the next generations. That is my goal," he said.

Onoda still hopes to reopen his own workshop in Namie one day.

But for now, Onoda and Namie's remaining potters will work at a new showroom set to open soon.

Words in This Story

pottery –n. objects that are made out of clay and baked in an oven to harden

1 pottery   

n.陶器，陶器场

参考例句：

• My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
• The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。

2 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。

3 releasing   

v.释放( release的现在分词 )；放开；发布；发行

参考例句：

• Releasing his arm, she laid her hand upon his shoulder. 她放掉他的胳膊，却把手放到了他的肩上。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
• The drag operation is still terminated by releasing the mouse button. 释放鼠标按键时，拖动操作将立即终止。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 experienced   

adj.有经验的；经验丰富的，熟练的

参考例句：

• Experienced seamen will advise you about sailing in this weather.有经验的海员会告诉你在这种天气下的航行情况。
• Perhaps you and I had better change over;you are more experienced.也许我们的工作还是对换一下好，你比我更有经验。