纪录片《文明》 第10期 创世纪的第二个瞬间（10）

I started in April

我从四月动工

and I stopped working in the middle of July.

到七月中旬结束

I worked about four, five hours a day.

每天大概制作四五个小时

In the end, it was about 400 hours, then I stopped counting.

最后算了下有四百个工时

I guess it was a real artist who made this.

我觉得它的制作者是真正的艺术家

And he was set free by his community

他的族人允许他

only to do this piece of artwork.

只专心制作这个工艺品

If you do this a whole summer or a whole winter through,

如果你花整个夏天或冬天做这个

you can't go hunting, you can't go fishing, you can't do nothing

你就无法打猎钓鱼 什么都干不了

because you work all day on it.

因为你全天都得干这个

It must have had incredible meaning for the people who made it.

它对制作者一定有非同寻常的意义

And these must have been charged with meaning too.

而这些应该也被赋予了特殊意义

Small figurines embodying¹ the primal² life events

这些小雕像展现了原始生活的

of birth and procreation.

生产及生殖行为

Gravid earth mothers weighty with fertility,

孕育着生命的大地母亲大腹便便

enormous distended³ breasts and buttocks.

有着极其丰满的胸部和臀部

1 embodying   

v.表现( embody的现在分词 )；象征；包括；包含

参考例句：

• Every instrument constitutes an independent contract embodying a payment obligation. 每张票据都构成一份独立的体现支付义务的合同。 来自口语例句
• Fowth, The aesthetical transcendency and the beauty embodying the man's liberty. \" 第四部分：审美的超越和作为人类自由最终体现的“美”。 来自互联网

2 primal   

adj.原始的；最重要的

参考例句：

• Jealousy is a primal emotion.嫉妒是最原始的情感。
• Money was a primal necessity to them.对于他们，钱是主要的需要。

3 distended   

v.（使）膨胀，肿胀( distend的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• starving children with huge distended bellies 鼓着浮肿肚子的挨饿儿童
• The balloon was distended. 气球已膨胀。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》