“老话说，生不带来 死不带去说的是物质的东西，当你葬在泥土之中的时候就什么都没了，但是你知道什么是你可以带走的吗？那些你没有分享出来的知识将随你而去。”
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1. I believe it would be hard to find a teenager today who knows the difference between oak and maple or what a coping saw is.
我觉得现在要想找一个能够分清楚橡木和枫木或者是知道什么是手弓锯的青少年已经很难了。
★ oak n.橡树
★ maple n.枫树
★★★ coping saw 手工锯
2. Traditional woodworking is being replaced by mass production. So its survival has fallen back on the craftsmen who are dedicated to passing on these age-old skills.
传统木工正被工业化的批量生产所取代，因此它的生死存亡依赖于那些致力于传承这些古老技能的工匠们。
★ woodworking n.木工艺
★ mass production 大批量生产
★ fall back on 求助于，借助于
★ craftsman n.手艺人
★★ be dedicated to 致力于
★ pass on 传递
★ age-old a.古老的
3. This is a creator space. lt was one that a craftsman found congenial, that seems really strange to Americans, because we expand into incredible residential footprints.
这是个创造者的空间，在这里，工匠就能找到他的创意，而对美国人来说这很奇怪，因为我们总是喜欢有更大的居所。
★ craftsman n.手艺人
★★★ congenial a.适宜的
★ expand vt.扩展
★ residential a.住宅的
★★★ footprint n.面积，空间量
4. So after that I worked as a carpenter and a house construction to put me through college. I was fortunate that back then you didn't have all the sub-contractors, so you got a chance to do everything.
后来为了能够负担我的大学学业，我在一个建筑工地当木匠。我很庆幸在那个时候还没有那么多外包商，所以什么你都有机会去试一试。
★ carpenter n.木匠，木工
★ put through 使某人经历
★★ sub-contractor n.外包商
5. It’s very emotional for me because it was so special to me when I was a kid, you know, I just latched on to it immediately. I really went back and forth over for a while and I really seriously considered following the path of wood workings.
对这门手艺有特殊的感情，就我的童年回忆来说 木工对我很特殊，我一下子就喜欢上了。我真的犹豫过一阵子，并且认真地考虑过走上木工这条路。
★★★ latch on to sth 对…产生浓厚的兴趣
★ back and forth 反复地，来回地
6. It’s still an organic living material and we have to deal with that in the trade, because in the summer it expands, in the winter it contracts, whereas in your metal world, it'll expand to get to heated up but you don't like your hand on it. And so we have to do things that account for its organic-ness that’s still there.
它仍是一种活生生的材料，我们这行要应对这些。因为夏天它就会膨胀冬天则会收缩，然而在你们的金属世界里，随着温度升高它也会膨胀，但你绝不想把手放在上面。我们必须要做的就是诠释木头里本身就有的有机性。
★ organic a.有机的
★ expand vi.膨胀
★ contract vi.收缩
★ heat sth up 把…加热
★ account for 解释
7. Having its useful base, and then having a pleasing in appearance, combines two really important parts of what we like to have around us. They've got it right, you know, for a number of reasons. First of all, they weren't concerned with styles, so if they got something right; they could do it over and over again, without having to come up with another model year.
以实用性为前提，再给它加上赏心悦目的外观，这样就能把我们最喜欢的两个重要部分结合。那些工匠们能成功是有一系列原因的。首先是他们不会拘泥于风格问题，所以一旦他们找对方向，他们就可以一直反复去做。而不用弄什么年型车出来。
★ pleasing a.令人满意的
★ come up with 想出
8. And they are in a religion that place an obligation to doing your best. They had a definition of perfection as being the best you can do today, so the perfection was progressive.
他们秉持的信仰中竭尽全力是自己的义务，他们对完美的定义就是尽你今天的全力做到最好，因而他们的完美是不断进步的。
★ obligation n.义务
★ perfection n.完美
★ progressive a.进步的
9. We are sponges, and we absorb, and we're unconscious about doing that, And when that's happening you are connecting things.
我们就像海绵，不断吸收，而我们却并不自知，这样的时候，你就在联结事物。
★★ sponge n.海绵
★ absorb vt.吸收
★ unconscious a.无意识的
10. John is a wood worker and a teacher, and by opening his shop up, and teaching his skills to other people; that's his legacy.
约翰是一名木匠，同时也是老师。他开放自己的铺子，把自己的技艺教给更多人，这就是他的传承。
★ legacy n.遗产
11. I enjoy having people come and they're expectant, and they go away that their expectations were satisfied, that’s what as a presenter, I feel that I've accomplished. That I’ve set the stage so they're independent within that, to take the lessons I’ve just presented and in show-and-tell time and translate them into that object that they had their goals on but they learned the lessons.
我很享受那种人们满怀期待地来，学到他们想学的之后满意离去的样子。身为老师我觉得很有成就感。我为他们搭建好了舞台，所以他们在里面是独立的，把我刚才所教授的课程展示出来，并将这一课转化为他们所想要的东西，同时也学到了东西。
★ expectant a.期待的
★ show-and-tell (在课堂上让学生展示并介绍所带物品的)展示讲述活动
★ translate vt.（使）转变，变成
12. You know the old adage is -- you can't take it with you, the material things. You're gonna be in a coffin someplace and this is all it. But you know what you do take with you? Your knowledge if you haven't shared. That's over.
老话说，生不带来 死不带去说的是物质的东西，当你葬在泥土之中的时候就什么都没了，但是你知道什么是你可以带走的吗？那些你没有分享出来的知识将随你而去。
★★★ adage n.谚语，格言
★★★ coffin n.棺材
13. I have no illusion over the originality of what I do anymore than I think any craftsman should have.
我没有那种幻觉认为自己的原创作品有多么了不起，我觉得任何匠人都能做到。
★ illusion n.幻想，幻觉
14. 150 years ago, this was standard in apprenticeship, it was an expectation that before you became a journey man, you would show you not only could use the tool, but you could make that and it became your tool kit.
在150年前，制作工具是学徒基本的技能，同时也是成为熟练工人的必备技能，你得证明你并不是只会用这些工具，而且你还能制造它们，保证你的工具箱什么都有。
★★★ apprenticeship n.学徒期
★ journey man 熟练工
★★ kit n.成套工具
15. In life, taking that first step is always the hardest part, but if you set your doubt aside, you'll be amazed at what you get in return.
在人生中，万事开头难，但当你将顾虑抛之脑后，你将为你的收获而惊讶。
★ set aside 把…抛在脑后
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