The Worst Christmas Jobs 圣诞特辑 10

Take these bands off.
Yes, that’s right. Take the bands off now and then lift the molds straight up.
OK. (That's it.)Oh, that's not bad, is it? So what do I do? Just ease it out.
Gently ease it out of the mold, Mack.
Ok.
Excellent.
Oh, my first little doll.(lovely) It's just, does look a bit like an alien, doesn't it? What will we have to do next?
Well, all that excess of wax has to be trimmed off with this scalpel(Yes.). And the eyes have to be set.(Yes. How are we gonna do that?) Put inside. But We need to cut the top of the head first.
Oh you are kidding!
Yeah, brain surgery, you know?.
I find it just amazing and she has got a lobotomy already. Oh, that is very unpleasant. Why do you do that?

That's so the eyes can be set from the inside of the head.
That's so
We need to warm the two off.
The eyes are set in the featureless face, then comes the most painstaking¹ part of this worst job. Rooting hairs one by one into the doll's head is ideally suited to the tiny fingers of children.
Gentle, slightly(yes.yes.), that way. Just press it into the wax, just a few hairs at a time.
What would the hair've been made of?
They used to use human hair mostly on the heads. But it could be diseased hair because it won't sterilize² as it does today. So it could be from a dead child that died of something awful. Then they would be working with this hair on the doll.

What's worse is that the horse‘s hair they used to stuff the bodies, carried tuberculosis³. It is really fiddly, isn't it?
Yeah, very straining. You must've been doing that on the whole head for hours and hours at a time.
It'd strain your eyes, wouldn't it?
It would really. I am working on that... on many kinds of costumes...Each one of those holes is actually stitch-drained. And there'd be yards, yards and yards of the fabric⁴ on that and this to make the clothes. And each…each little bit be stitched by hand and the …the lighting⁵ would be even more of a strain on their eyes.
So in the spirit of worst jobs, we put out our filming lights. Oh that is ridiculous! I can't see anything at all. What would have happened if they've melted one up?
They just have to be scrapped⁶. They wouldn't be accepted by the toy shops if they weren't up to the standard . So they wouldn’t get any money at all then (poor things). It'll draw the long work hours worse.
Presumably this was the worst part of the job.
Not really. Here it gets see the even worse. With the paint and coloring then you got the lead in the paint so if you go up licking the brush to get nice fine point poised⁷ to be full of lead paint , then there was the arsenic⁸ in the coloring as well...
God!
And at the end of the day, these poor little kids wouldn't have earned enough money to have a doll of their own.
No way. No. They would be lucky to even get a Christmas dinner.

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ease v free from… 从…解脱,解(放)出来.

scalpel n．外科手术刀，解剖刀

lobotomy n. 前脑叶白质切除术

sterilize v. make clean, To make free from live bacteria or other microorganisms, 杀菌

tuberculosis n.结核病,肺结核(略作TB)

1 painstaking   

adj.苦干的；艰苦的，费力的，刻苦的

参考例句：

• She is not very clever but she is painstaking.她并不很聪明，但肯下苦功夫。
• Through years of our painstaking efforts,we have at last achieved what we have today.大家经过多少年的努力，才取得今天的成绩。

2 sterilize   

vt.使不结果实；使绝育；使无效；杀菌，消毒

参考例句：

• Antiseptic is used to sterilize the skin before giving an injection.杀菌剂被用于在注射前给皮肤消毒。
• He pricks the blister on his heel with a sterilize needle.他用一根消过毒的针扎破他脚后跟上的水泡。

3 tuberculosis   

n.结核病，肺结核

参考例句：

• People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
• Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。

4 fabric   

n.织物，织品，布；构造，结构，组织

参考例句：

• The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
• I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。

5 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。

6 scrapped   

废弃(scrap的过去式与过去分词)； 打架

参考例句：

• This machine is so old that it will soon have to be scrapped. 这架机器太旧，快报废了。
• It had been thought that passport controls would be scrapped. 人们曾认为会放开护照管制。

7 poised   

a.摆好姿势不动的

参考例句：

• The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋，准备俯冲。
• Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张，手悬在电话机上。

8 arsenic   

n.砒霜，砷；adj.砷的

参考例句：

• His wife poisoned him with arsenic.他的妻子用砒霜把他毒死了。
• Arsenic is a poison.砒霜是毒药。