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There were scores of masks,
那里出土了大量面具
There were giant masks
有些體積巨大
which probably stood in some sort of temple.
可能被安放在某種神殿內(nèi)
There were little itty-bitty masks,
也有些非常小巧的
There were masks that were user-friendly,
還有些則很適合人使用
that almost certainly could be worn on the face.
幾乎能確定能將它們戴在臉上
They all have huge eyes.
它們都有巨大的眼睛
This one, you can still see a few traces of black paint.
這個(gè)面具上依然能看到黑色顏料的痕跡
They were painted black.
它們原本被漆成黑色
Dashing eyebrows.
劍眉
Diamond-shaped eyes.
菱形眼睛
Nothing in the rest of ancient China has ever been discovered
古代中國發(fā)現(xiàn)的其他所有文物
remotely like these faces, like these heads.
和這些面孔 這些頭像都毫無相似之處
The bronze is the same,
同樣都是青銅
the figures and faces are not.
人物與相貌則迥異
Nothing that can tell us anything about the people
我們無法從任何現(xiàn)存遺跡中了解
who made these objects has survived.
鑄造這些物品的人
There are no writings,
沒有文字記載
no other histories to tell us who they were.
亦無其他史料告訴我們他們是誰
It's been suggested that some of the masks
有人猜測某些面具
might have been used in rituals by
有可能在降靈儀式中
impersonators of the dead -
被巫師使用
those enormous eyes which see beyond the world,
那些能看透塵世的巨眼
the ears which might hear what the departed say.
那些能聆聽死者的耳朵
