" If I were you I'd have a lathe" .

" 我要是你，我就玩玩车床！"

The lathe is the machine that cuts the lacquer.

车床是切漆的机器。

The programmer is also an important part of the lathe.

编程器也是车床的重要组成部分。

And he once more ran off to the captain. The latter was going back to see his lathe again.

他又向着消防队长跑去。 队长正要回家。他要回去看看他的车床。

Standing at the lathe as Mr Sillitoe had stood, they dreamed of “marvellous things”.

如同西利托往日那样，站在车床旁边的他们也会想着那些“绝妙的事物”。

But it was impossible because of the lathe to hear what she was saying.

但是车床转得太响，不太可能听清楚她在讲些什么。

He also made the tools that made them, except for the lathes and turning engines.

用来作这些零件的工具都是他自己做的——用来发动引擎的车床除外。

'You can make anything with a lathe and a knife.

“你可以用车床造任何东西。

Lathes make wheels, or, more precisely, they make cylindrical objects.

【precisely】车床可以车削轮子，更确切地说，可以车削圆柱形物体。

They are not round.' So Anders took the skulls and put them on the lathe.

它们不是圆的。于是安德斯拿起头骨并将它们放在车床上。

Then he took the skulls and put them in the lathe and turned them till they were round.

然后他把头骨放在车床上， 车削成圆形。

Then he answered: 'Then I ask for a fire, a turning lathe, and a cutting-board with the knife'.

然后他回答说：“那么我要一把火、一台车床一个带的砧板” 。

Someone making pottery on a lathe (Tamilan pugal CC BY-SA 4.0) A lathe is a tool that turns something around.

有人在车床上作陶器（Tamilan pugal CC BY-SA 4.0）车床是一种可以转动物体的工具。

They are round and regular as if turned in a lathe, excepting the butt cuts, which have a few buttressing projections.

它们是圆形规则的， 就像在车床上车削一样， 除了对接切口外， 它有一些支撑突起。

So when you make pottery—jugs, glasses, plates and so on—out of clay, you use a lathe to turn the clay around.

因此，当你用粘土作陶器（罐子、玻璃杯、盘子等）时，你需要使用车床来转动粘土。

And I need the fire to keep warm, of course.' So the King sent him to the castle with a fire, a lathe, and a knife.

当然，我需要火来取暖。”于是国王派他带着火、车床来到城堡。

Most people these days will never use a lathe, because most people don't make pottery, but in the past, lathes were a very important tool.

现在大多数人永远不会使用车床，因为大多数人不作陶器，但在过去，车床是非常重要的工具。