你怎么做珠寶？過程是怎樣的

今天的這段對(duì)話，在討論珠寶飾品，
 
你怎么做珠寶？過程是怎樣的
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: Hello, Adrienne.
 
你好，埃德里安娜。
 
B: Hi, Todd.
 
你好，托德。
 
A: You know Adrienne I must compliment you. You always have the nicest jewelry.
 
埃德里安娜，我要稱贊你。你總是佩戴最棒的珠寶飾品。
 
B: Oh, thank you. That's a nice thing to say.
 
哦，謝謝你。你這么說真好。
 
A: Where do you get it?
 
你從哪里買的這些珠寶？
 
B: Various places. A lot of jewelry I pick up interesting pieces when I'm traveling, but also a lot of my jewelry I make.
 
各個(gè)地方。有些珠寶飾品是我去有意思的地方旅行時(shí)買的，其他的飾品是我自己做的。
 
A: Get out of here!
 
開玩笑呢吧！
 
B: No. Serious.
 
沒有，我是認(rèn)真的。
 
A: You make your own Jewelry?
 
你自己做珠寶首飾？
 
B: Yeah, some of it. It's kind of a hobby of mine that just developed in the last few years.
 
對(duì)，有些是自己做的。這是我近幾年來剛培養(yǎng)的一個(gè)愛好。
 
A: Now, that's pretty cool that you make your own jewelry. Like, how do you make jewelry? What's the process?
 
你自己做珠寶，這太酷了。你怎么做珠寶？過程是怎樣的？
 
B: Well, it depends on what you want to make of course, but I go to the jewelry shop or the bead shop usually and they have all of the different pieces, different kinds of beads, different kinds of chains, different kinds of claps and wire and all of the things you need to put on a necklace or bracelet together.
 
這取決于你要做什么飾品，我經(jīng)常去逛首飾店和串珠店，那里有各種各樣的首飾、串珠、鏈子、搭扣和鋼絲，有所有做項(xiàng)鏈或手鏈需要的材料。
 
A: And you just fiddle it together?
 
就把它們穿在一起就行了嗎？
 
B: Yeah, usually I have an idea in mind, a color scheme in mind or maybe I'm thinking I bought a new skirt and I want something to go with it so actually it was a hobby born out of necessity because I couldn't afford to keep up with my buying accessories all the time, so.
 
對(duì)，通常我會(huì)想好配色方案，如果我買了一件新短裙，那我就需要和它搭配的飾品，所以這個(gè)愛好是因?yàn)樾枰硼B(yǎng)成的，因?yàn)橐恢辟I飾品我負(fù)擔(dān)不起。
 
A: Cool. So, how did you learn how to do this? Did you take a class?
 
真酷。你是怎么學(xué)習(xí)做這些的？你有上過相關(guān)課程嗎？
 
B: No, I probably should actually. But no, it actually started not too long ago.
 
不，我可能真的應(yīng)該這么做。但不，它實(shí)際上是不久前開始的。
 
A friend of mine had a really nice looking necklace that was falling apart. And I looked at it closely and I thought, " Oh, this should be easy to fix." She couldn't find a jeweler who would touch it because they were worried about it breaking and then they would be responsible, and so I said, "Well, let me try." Of course I don't want to be responsible either but, let me try as a friend, and so I went to the story and found the wire and and clasp and everything we needed to fix it and it turned out actually really nice and she was so pleased with it that I decided to fix a few other pieces that had been lying in my closet untouched for a long time and fix them. They turned out really nice and then I went back and started finding more interesting pieces to work with and so, yeah, it was just sort of a slow development.
 
沒有，可能我應(yīng)該去學(xué)一下。不過我沒有學(xué)過，我是不久之前剛開始動(dòng)手做飾品的。我的一個(gè)朋友有一條非常漂亮的項(xiàng)鏈斷了。我仔細(xì)看過那條項(xiàng)鏈后我認(rèn)為它很容易修。當(dāng)時(shí)她找不到愿意修理的珠寶商，因?yàn)樗麄儞?dān)心如果項(xiàng)鏈壞了，那他們就要負(fù)責(zé)任，所以我就說讓我試試吧。當(dāng)然我也不想負(fù)責(zé)，不過作為朋友我愿意試試，然后我就去找鋼絲和搭扣，還有修理項(xiàng)鏈需要的其它材料，修理之后的效果非常不錯(cuò)，她非常滿意，所以我決定把我柜子里那些長期不用的飾品也修改一下。修理之后的效果都非常好，然后我就開始去找一些有趣的材料，用它們制作飾品，培養(yǎng)愛好的過程很漫長。
 
A: So, when you make the jewelry, what tools do you use? What do you got?
 
你做珠寶飾品的時(shí)候用什么工具？你都有什么工具？
 
B: Usually you need some kind of a wire cutter or scissors depending on whether your working with string or thin wire. I recommend thin wire just because it lasts longer. It's stronger. String can wear out. You have a needle nose plier, so it's a specific type of pliers that have a very pointed end on it. Needle-nose they call it, and that's used to clamp some of the clasp together and also just to help pull the thread through the beads, that kind of thing. And then, you need to buy separate clasps to be able to wire everything and to be able to wear it basically. So it's actually really straight forward and very simple. It just sounds and looks very complicated, so it makes everyone more impressed than they should be I think.
 
一般需要剪線鉗和剪子這樣的工具，這取決于你用的是線還是細(xì)鋼絲。我推薦用細(xì)鋼絲，因?yàn)樗某志眯愿?，也更結(jié)實(shí)。線很容易磨損。還需要尖嘴鉗，這是一種特殊的尖頭鉗子。他們稱它尖嘴，這種鉗子是用來固定搭扣的，也可以在把線穿過珠子時(shí)使用。另外，還要買一些不同的搭扣，用來連接各種材料，確保可以佩戴。所以制作方法非常簡單明了。可能聽起來或者看起來非常復(fù)雜，所以給人們的印象才會(huì)更深刻。
 
A: Well, the jewelry store people probably don't want to hear that.
 
珠寶店的店主可能并不想聽到這些。