雅思口语素材：工艺品——竹艺

 　　Handicraft:

　　The handicraft that I would describe to you is of an extreme artistic¹ importance in our country. Many foreigners buy it when they come to china for traveling and take it back as a souvenir. It’s called “Bamboo craft”, entirely² made from bamboo and with hand. My dad is very interested in collecting crafts and antiques; he has an old friend who is an artist and a professional sculptor³. My dad is often busy with his company matter, so when I was a kid he used to drop me to his friend’s house. I grew up in an artistic environment and the passion of art was growing gradually deep in side my heart. Once I took a piece of wood and started carving⁴ it and my dads friend helped me a lot later he taught me how to make the Bamboo crafts.

　　My dad’s birthday was coming and I was thinking of giving him a unique present. So I decided⁵ to make him a set of bamboo glasses. It’s easy to make them as the bamboo is cylindrical⁶ so the tools I needed were a saw, a chisel⁷, mallet⁸, foils and some sand paper. I cut the bamboo with the help of saw into six pieces of equal length and use the chisel and mallet to smoothen the inner surface of the bamboo. Later I foiled it and made its base and after the hard work of a week the set of glasses was ready and when I gave it to my father he was extremely happy.

　　Now these crafts are very common and you can buy them anywhere. They are cheap and environment friendly.

　　If you are just asked to describe the handicraft then choose the first and the following paragraph.

　　Bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful plants of the tropics, and one of nature’s most valuable gifts. China is the home of about 1/3 of the world’s 1300 or so species of bamboo. As the materials, They are strong, light, smooth, straight, and round. They have hard outer skins, and they are free from any pronounced taste or smell.

　　Bamboo is found abundantly and grows and increases rapidly. Only four years old bamboo is ready for use. For this reason, using bamboo as one kind of material instead of wood, is the GREEN idea of saving rain forest. Bamboo’s potential as a multi-purpose product for the global marketplace and the ease with which it is grown and fashioned into salable⁹ merchandise.

　　本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑。

 

1 artistic   

adj.艺术(家)的，美术(家)的；善于艺术创作的

参考例句：

• The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
• These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。

2 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

3 sculptor   

n.雕刻家，雕刻家

参考例句：

• A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
• The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。

4 carving   

n.雕刻品，雕花

参考例句：

• All the furniture in the room had much carving.房间里所有的家具上都有许多雕刻。
• He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.他在老家学会了木雕手艺。

5 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

6 cylindrical   

adj.圆筒形的

参考例句：

• huge cylindrical gas tanks 巨大的圆柱形贮气罐
• Beer cans are cylindrical. 啤酒罐子是圆筒形的。

7 chisel   

n.凿子；v.用凿子刻，雕，凿

参考例句：

• This chisel is useful for getting into awkward spaces.这凿子在要伸入到犄角儿里时十分有用。
• Camille used a hammer and chisel to carve out a figure from the marble.卡米尔用锤子和凿子将大理石雕刻出一个人像。

8 mallet   

n.槌棒

参考例句：

• He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。
• The chairman rapped on the table twice with his mallet.主席用他的小木槌在桌上重敲了两下。

9 salable   

adj.有销路的，适销的

参考例句：

• Black Tea and Longjin Tea are salable in our market.红茶和龙井茶在我们那很好卖。
• She was a slave,and salable as such. 她是个奴隶，既然是奴隶，也就可以出卖。