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The illustration on Google's homepage on Monday may look pretty whimsical, but it's spotlighting a very serious issue: clean water. Not bad for an 11-year-old from Long Island.
本周一的谷歌首頁涂鴉看起來十分意想天開，但關注卻是一個非常嚴肅的問題：凈水。該作品出自一名來自紐約長島的11歲孩子之手，相當不錯。
Audrey Zhang, a fifth-grader from Levittown, N.Y., is the winner of this year's Doodle 4 Google competition, rising to the top of some 100,000 entries on the theme of "draw one thing to make the world a better place."
紐約州萊維敦的五年級學生張天羽在10萬名參賽者中脫穎而出，贏得了本年度谷歌國際少年繪畫大賽冠軍。這次比賽的主題是“畫一個能使世界變得更好的東西”。
Her piece, titled “Back to Mother Nature," depicts an elaborate water-cleaning machine. Zhang worked with a team of artists at Google to animate her drawing.
她的作品《回歸大自然》描繪了一臺復雜的凈水機器。她和一組谷歌的藝術家們共同將這幅作品變成了動畫。
"To make the world a better place, I invented a transformative water purifier," Google quoted Zhang as saying. "It takes in dirty and polluted water from rivers, lakes and even oceans, then massively transforms the water into clean, safe and sanitary water. When humans and animals drink this water, they will live a healthier life."
“為了讓世界更好，我想到了一臺革命性的凈水器” 谷歌引用了張天羽的原話，“它能夠大量轉化江河湖海里的污水，把它們變成安全衛生的凈水。人和動物喝這種水，會活得更健康。”
She created a whole world around the device -- one populated by humans, a whale in a top hat and dragons.
在作品中，她圍繞這臺機器創造了一整個世界：人類、帶著大禮帽的鯨魚和龍居住在其中。
Zhang's piece is “so lush and so rich and so full and so complete,” Google Doodle team leader Ryan Germick told the Washington Post. “Every leaf seemed to have life in it.”
張天羽的作品“非常豐富和完整”，谷歌涂鴉團隊領導瑞安·格米克對《華盛頓郵報》表示，“仿佛每片樹葉都有生命”。
Along with having her artwork featured on Google's homepage, Zhang wins a $30,000 college scholarship. In addition, her school will receive a $50,000 Google for Education technology grant, and the company is donating $20,000 in her name to a charity dedicated to bringing clean water to schools in Bangladesh.
除了作品被展示在谷歌主頁，張天羽還獲得了3萬美元的大學獎學金。她所在的學校也將獲得5萬美元的谷歌教育科技撥款。谷歌還以她的名義向慈善機構捐贈了2萬美元，用于給孟加拉的學校提供凈水。
On Sunday, the night before the Doodle debuted, Zhang told Newsday she was "excited" by the big win, but said she wouldn't be awake when her art first went online at midnight.
周日也就是張天羽的作品被谷歌展示的前一天，她接受紐約長島報紙《新聞日》的采訪，表示自己對獲獎感到興奮，但不會熬夜等自己的作品上線。
"I have school tomorrow, so I can't stay up late," she told the paper.
“我明天還要上學，不能晚睡。” 張天羽如是說。
