As well as backbreaking mining toil, he carved chopsticks and toothpicks out of planks of wood until his hands were raw and assembled car seat covers that the prison exported to South Korea and Japan.
除了做劳累至极的矿工之外,他还要把木板上切开,雕刻成筷子和牙签,直到他的双手刺痛,还要安装汽车座椅套,监狱则把这些出口到韩国和曰本。
In Thailand, wood is often elaborately carved into chopsticks.
在泰国,木材往往被精巧地制作成筷子。
Surely this big roast duck has to be carved before we eat it, but how could the carving be done with chopsticks instead of a knife?
格在我们吃这只烤鸭之前想必得切一切,可是怎么能用筷子而不用刀来切它呢?
Pointing out that only 4,000 chopsticks can be carved from a 20-year-old tree, he even went so far as to suggest that restaurants offered metal knives and forks instead.
他指出,一颗20年树龄的树木只能生产出4000双筷子。 他甚至还建议,餐馆应该直接使用金属制的刀叉代替筷子。
Pointing out that only 4,000 chopsticks can be carved from a 20-year-old tree, he even went so far as to suggest that restaurants offered metal knives and forks instead.
他指出,一颗20年树龄的树木只能生产出4000双筷子。 他甚至还建议,餐馆应该直接使用金属制的刀叉代替筷子。
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