术语“失蜡法”的详细信息

英译术语:

cire-perdue process

汉语语境:

在华南地区和东南亚发现的青铜鼓主要是以蜡制造模为工具采用失蜡法铸造而成。因设计需要在浮雕与凹刻之间互相转换，那些复杂的装饰主要直接由蜡模辅以模板压制而成。鼓身和鼓面上青蛙和小鸟等的立体图案必须先由失蜡法铸型，然后加入到铸造的主体。总而言之，由于青铜鼓的技术制作相当高超，鼓身上的竖线很可能是为了加强审美和外观齐整的效果而故意加上的，并非是铸造过程中模具留下的接缝。

英语语境:

The bronze drums discovered in South China and Southeast Asia were largely made by means of the lost wax method (cire-perdue process) with design-bearing wax models as necessary tools. Because of the need of transforming designs in relief and those in intaglio into each other, complex decorations must have been made largely by directly cutting wax models and partially by impressing with mold plates. The three-dimensional motifs on the drum body and face, such as frogs and birds, must have been shaped with the lost wax method and then joined to the main body by casting technique. As the technology of bronze drum making was rather high on the whole, the vertical lines on the drum body may have been intentionally made for strengthening aesthetic and orderly effects rather than the seams left over from the composite mold casting process.