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?”圣艾夫斯(St Ives):英格兰西南部康沃尔郡海岸的一个小镇。它受到游客的欢迎,许多著名的艺术家都住在那里,其中包括伯纳德·里奇(1887-1979),芭芭拉·赫普沃斯,本·尼科尔森和帕特里克·赫伦(1920-99)。Tate UK的一个分支于1993年在圣艾夫斯开设。在一个传统的童谣中也提到了该镇,其中包含一个谜语,答案是一个答案,因为男人和他的妻子等正往另一个方向走: