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With this intensively carved female head,
这个雕刻精细的女性头部雕像
we have, for the first time,
标志着我们第一个
something immensely and movingly momentous.
极为重要令人激动的发现
We have the revelation of the human face.
我们创作出了人类的面孔
It's a tiny thing, it can
就这样一个小小的作品
just go in the palm of your hand.
能放在你的掌心
This is exquisite.
非常精致
There are downward strokes and sideward strokes
有向下的刻痕 也有横向的刻痕
there is carving and gouging and polishing and scraping.
刻 凿 磨 刮
Every kind of extraordinary craft is applied
各种非凡工艺的运用
to give this face what we have to say is its personality.
使这面庞展现出我们所说的个性
One example,
举个例子
a dig is made below the forehead
额头下面有个凹陷
to suggest the presence of eyes.
代表了眼睛
Those eyes are hauntingly vivid.
这对眼睛生动形象 难以忘怀
They only become eyes when a shadow falls over
只有当那道刻痕处于阴影中时
that passage in the head.
眼睛才显现
So this little piece would have been turned into the light
所以这件小艺术品必须面朝光线
and as it was turned into the light, the shadow would have fallen
当它面朝光线时 阴影落下
and suddenly we have eyes as well as that beautiful nose
突然间我们就看到了眼睛还有那漂亮的鼻子
and this extraordinary hair falling down the nape of the neck.
美丽的头发落在颈后
