Some academics theorized that the hand stencils were part of hunting rituals.

一些学者理论认为，手模是狩猎仪式的一部分。

To me, though, the hand stencils at Lascaux say, " I was here" .

对于我来说，拉手模仿佛在说：“我就在这里。”

And, undeniably, these hand stencils do what nearly all art that would follow would aspire to.

无可否认，这些手板画做到了几乎后来所有艺术所追求的。

These hand stencils remind us of how different life was in the distant past.

这些手模让我们想起了遥远的过去。

It's a collage of hands stenciled onto the wall.

这是一张墙上的手的拼贴画。

So if you've ever been or had a child, you will likely already be familiar with hand stencils.

因此，如果你刚生下孩子，或者在过去生过孩子，你可能已经很熟悉手模。

You can go to the fake cave we've built, and see nearly identical hand stencils.

您可以去我们建造的假洞穴，看看几乎相同的手工模具。

How about stenciling with the ladies?

要不去和女士们做油印？

No no. I don't have to do stenciling. I can do this.

不不，我不用做油印。 我能做这个。

Because there, stencilled on in English, you can read: CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH ARMY IN 1801; PRESENTED BY KING GEORGE III.

上面用英文写着“1801，英国军队获于埃及”以及（在另一处）“英王乔治三世赠”。

And so you often see negative hand stencils with three or four fingers.

所以你经常会看到三到四根手指的坏手模。

That is not enough time. She just started stenciling the kitchen, and I didn't want to tell you this, but there is talk of an herb garden.

那不够。她已经开始装修厨房，我也不想跟你说这些，不过他们还说到要建个花园。

But of course that's meaning I am applying to their hand stencils and that complicated relationship between art and its viewers is never more fraught than when we are looking deeply into the past.

但是，当然，这意味着我总要回味他们的手模。可以发现，当我们深入探究过去时，艺术与它的观众之间的关系从未如此紧张。

Today, unless you go the traditional route, your tattoo artist will probably use a tattoo machine based on the one patented by Samuel O'Reilly in 1891, itself based on Thomas Edison's stencil machine from 1876.

今天，除非你采用传统纹身方法，你的纹身师极可能是通过纹身机器来完成纹身的，这种机器是在1891年塞缪尔·奥赖利的一项专利的基础上设计的，而奥赖利的设计则是根据托马·爱迪生1876年发明的制版机而来。

Aside from the animals, there are nearly a thousand abstract signs and shapes we cannot interpret, and also several " negative hand stencils" as they are known by art historians.

除了物，还有近一千种抽象的符号和形状我们无法解释，还有艺术史学家熟知的几种“负手模”。

You typed up your copy on stencils which could be purchased in a local office-supply store for nineteen cents apiece—my brother called this chore “cutting stencil, ” and it was usually my job, as I was less prone to make typing errors.

你得把文字先打在蜡纸上，蜡纸是从当地一家办公用品商店花19美分一张买来的——我哥哥管这活叫做“切蜡纸”，通常这活都由我来干，因为我打字很少出错。