【话匣子英语】珠宝设计师西娜

哈皮请来了西娜，西娜的妈妈曾经是珠宝设计师，她因此而对珠宝设计感兴趣。长大后在日本留学，同时也从事珠宝设计。

Sheena: Sure. My name’s Sheena. I’m from the east coast¹ of Canada, a place called

Nova Scotia, and I’ve been living here in Montreal for about nine months

now, and before that I moved from Japan where I was living for about three

and a half years. Yeah, I was in Japan teaching² English and also making

jewelry³.

Harp⁴: Wow, OK! So, I went to your website⁵ today and your jewelry designs are

amazing. So tell me, you went to school for jewelry design or how did you

get started?

Sheena: Yes. Well, actually my mother was a jeweler when I was a child, and she

stopped when I was about eight years old. So, it was always something that I

was a little bit interested in, but it was in the back of my mind. But I started

studying art at university, and when I was in my second year I started to try

the jewelry program and I realized that it was something I liked and I did a

major in jewelry design and metalsmithing and I graduated in 2004.

Harp: So, where do you draw inspiration⁶ for your pieces?

Sheena: I’ve lived in a lot of different places, so I get a lot of inspiration from the

people that I’m around and the way that people interact⁷ when they’re in

situations where they don’t have language or when they can’t communicate

using words. So body language, or the way that people interact with one

another, also nature, different forms, patterns⁸ that I may see from plants, ice,

sand. Things like this.

1 coast   

n.海岸，海滨，滑坡；vt.沿海岸而行；vi.下滑

参考例句：

• They're holidaying on the west coast.他们正在西海岸度假。
• There are thousands of villages on the coast.在沿海有上千座村庄。

2 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

3 jewelry   

n.（jewllery）（总称）珠宝

参考例句：

• The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。
• Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。

4 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。

5 website   

n.（互联网的）站点；网址

参考例句：

• Do you have the address of our website?你有我们的网址吗？
• A strange website turns up.出现了一个奇怪的网站。

6 inspiration   

n.灵感，鼓励者，吸气

参考例句：

• These events provided the inspiration for his first novel.这些事件给了他创作第一部小说的灵感。
• What an inspiration she was to all around her!她对于她周围所有的人是一种多么大的鼓舞！

7 interact   

vi.相互作用，相互影响，互通信息

参考例句：

• All things are interrelated and interact on each other.一切事物互相联系并相互作用。
• The policeman advised the criminal to interact with the police.警察劝罪犯与警方合作。

8 patterns   

榜样( pattern的名词复数 )； 样品； 花样； 方式

参考例句：

• changing patterns of behaviour 行为变化模式
• a rightward shift in voting patterns 选举格局的右倾化转变