Women have traditionally been forbidden from operating marionettes, or even making them, a craft that entails complex rituals, conducted under cover of night and involving kola nuts and roosters.

传统上，女性不允许操作木偶，甚至制作也不被允许，制作包含复杂的工艺，要在夜幕的掩护下，原料涉及可乐果公鸡。

And then the motion capture is what drives that marionette.

然后动作捕捉就驱动提线木偶的东西。

You've made Midge into a marionette puppet? Fantastic!

你把米吉变成了木偶木偶？太棒了！

She grew up in Koulikoro, about an hour from Bamako on the banks of the Niger river, a town known for its marionettes, masks and unique, sacred statuettes that represent the dead.

她在库利科罗长大，从巴马科到尼日尔河岸边大约一个小时，这座城镇以木偶、面具死者的独特神圣雕像而闻名。

Potty the parrot, the marionette parrot is bugging him and he just looked at it and " You! I'm ignoring."

当鹦鹉波弟，那只木偶鹦鹉在烦阿西时，阿西跟他说：“你！我不想理啦。”

It was as though the masked wizards on the ground were puppeteers, and the people above them were marionettes operated by invisible strings that rose from the wands into the air.

这好像地面上这些蒙面操纵木偶的人，而他们上方的那几个人牵线木偶，被从魔杖里冒向空中的无形的绳子控制着。

No. You do not want to go during the show. The marionettes stop what they're doing, march to the edge of the stage and point at you.

不，你在演出中途去厕所会被鄙视的。那些木偶会停下动作，行进到舞台边缘，然后指着你。

Oh. But you were so excited to take Lily to see the Russian marionettes.

但你那么兴奋地想带莉莉去看俄罗斯木偶秀啊。

You're a real marionette puppet, on stage and everything!

你一个真正的木偶，舞台上的一切！

Meanwhile, a boy behind him got up on the bench, and began to play the marionette.

这时先生后面有一个学生乘着先生不看见，跳上椅子玩起洋娃娃来。

I want a piece of wood to make a Marionette. Will you give it to me?

“我想要段木头做我的那个木偶，您肯给吗？”

The poor Marionette was heartbroken at reading these words.

可怜的木偶读完这几行字后心碎不已。

His government " understood that the arts were a very important part of creating a national identity and bringing people together, " says Mary Jo Arnoldi, a curator at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington and an expert on marionette culture.

凯塔的政府“明白艺术创造国家认同把人民团结在一起的重要组成部分，”华盛顿国家自然历史博物馆馆长、木偶文化专家玛丽·乔·阿诺尔迪示。

And then we fit it with bones, like an armature, like you do like a marionette.

然后我们给它装上骨头，就像骨架一样，就像你做的木偶一样。

On the medallion was painted the picture of a Marionette.

挂饰上画着一个木偶的像。

" The marionette itself couldn't do anything, but the men around it could do very bad things."

“木偶本身做不了什么，但木偶周围的人却可以做非常坏的事。”

For all his scepticism, Mr Camara performed with her in the national marionette troupe in the 1990s, when urban companies educated Malians on subjects such as HIV and child labour.

20世纪90年，尽管卡马拉先生心存疑虑，但还在城市公司在给马里人做类似艾滋病童工的普及教育时，她在国家木偶剧团同台演出。

The poor Marionette stood as if turned to stone, with wide eyes, open mouth, and the empty halves of the egg-shell in his hands.

可怜的木偶站在那里发呆，眼睛瞪大，嘴巴张开，手里拿着两瓣空空的鸡蛋壳。

As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.

杰佩托一回家，马上拿起工具，动手就刻他的木偶。

Because you are a Marionette and, what is much worse, you have a wooden head.

因为你—个木偶，更糟的，因为你有一个木头脑袋。