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This is engaged upon by vast numbers of people, and is an absolutely collective act of celebration of what they are able to achieve, as a united body of intention.
它們是民眾共同創出來的，是人們共同力量的極佳表現。
"Even if we don't understand it in technical terms, the awe-inspiring thing is the way in which, in spite of its scale, proportion and clarity is brought to the surface of the stone.
“即使技術方面我們不理解,令人驚嘆的是,石頭表面能有這樣的規模,比例及清澈度。
This surface is created entirely by sand abrasion.
這個表面是完全由砂磨所創造。
It's difficult to conceive of a harder material-this is granite-extreme resistance has been overcome by time and elbow grease."
很難相信這樣一種堅硬的原料—花崗巖，被一點一滴的時間和精力所征服。
Antony Gormley's point is, I think, a very important one.
這一點至關重要。
This serenely smiling sculpture is not the creation of an individual artist, but the achievement of a whole society-the result of a huge, complex process of engineering and logistics-in many ways much closer to building a motorway than making a work of art.
這座帶著莊嚴笑容的雕像并非某一位藝術家的作品, 而是整個社會的勞動成果，需要繁復龐雜的工程規劃與后勤保障。它在許多方面都更接近于修建高速公路，而非創作藝術。
The granite for the sculpture was quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block-the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 tons.
雕像所使用的花崗巖釆自阿斯旺，在尼羅河上游，距神殿超過一百五十公里。它使用了整塊巨石雕琢，原石重量應超過二十噸。
It was then roughly shaped before being moved on wooden sleds, and pulled by large teams of labourers, from the quarry to a raft which was floated down the Nile to Luxor.
先雕出基本形狀，再靠大量的勞力把石料用木橇從采石場拖到木筏上，沿尼羅河順流而下到盧克索。
The stone would then be hauled from the river to the Ramesseum, where the finer stone-working would take place in situ.
再從河邊運到拉美西斯神殿，進行最后的雕刻。僅完成這一個雕像便需要大量的人力與龐大的組織結構。
So an enormous amount of man-power and organisation was needed to erect even this one statue, and this whole work-force had to be trained, managed and co-ordinated and, if not paid-many of them would of course have been slaves-at least fed and housed.
所有的勞工都需 要訓練、管理和調度，就算是沒有薪水的奴隸也得保證食物與住所。
