St Ives
/snt ˈaɪvz/
/seɪnt ˈaɪvz/
- a town on the coast of Cornwall in south-west England. It is popular with tourists, and several well-known artists have lived there, including Bernard Leach (1887-1979), Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Patrick Heron (1920-99). A branch of Tate Britain opened in St Ives in 1993. The town is also mentioned in a traditional nursery rhyme which contains a riddle to which the answer is one, since the man and his wives, etc. were going the other way: “As I was going to St Ives,I met a man with seven wives.Each wife had seven sacks,Each sack had seven cats,Each cat had seven kits;Kits, cats, sacks and wives,How many were going to Saint Ives?”
英格兰西南部康沃尔郡海岸的一个小镇。这里很受游客欢迎，多位著名艺术家都曾居住在那里，包括伯纳德·利奇（Bernard Leach，1887-1979）、芭芭拉·赫普沃斯（Barbara Hepworth）、本·尼科尔森（Ben Nicholson）和帕特里克·赫伦（Patrick Heron，1920-99）。英国泰特美术馆于 1993 年在圣艾夫斯开设了分馆。一首传统童谣中也提到了这个小镇，其中有一个谜语，其答案是“一”，因为男人和他的妻子等走的是另一条路：“作为我要去圣艾夫斯，我遇到了一个有七个妻子的男人。每个妻子有七个麻袋，每个麻袋有七只猫，每个猫有七个套件；套件，猫，麻袋和妻子，有多少人要去圣艾夫斯？