Oh, dear. Whoooooo's totem pole has broken.

哦，天呐。Whoooooo的腾柱坏了。

We'll make her a new totem pole!

我们给她做一新的腾柱！

The ship itself serves as a war trophy, but you realize everything in there is like a totem to anti-Americanism.

这艘船本身就是战利品，但你意识到那里的一切都是反美腾。

Totemism, for example, was a system as complex as the Linnaean classification.

比如，腾这系统的复杂程度堪比林奈的植物学分类体系。

So you're sending this totem, supposedly of being above politics and being above the vicissitudes of the everyday, straight into the maw of one of the most communicative and irascible presidents ever.

你把这着超脱政治、超脱日常变迁的腾，直接送进了有史以来最能言善辩又脾气暴躁的总统之口。

Familiar with the spectacle of yearly bird migrations, the Shao Hao people chose a symbol of a bird as their totem.

少氏族人熟悉鸟群每年迁徙的奇景，他们选择了一种鸟的符号当作他们腾。

Many totemic bosses of the age, from bankers to tech founders, come with big egos, showy antics and volatile tempers.

现今时代的腾式老板，从银行家到科技公司创始人，都极其自负，爱哗众取宠，且脾气反复无常。

They're the rarest type of totem pole and some of the tallest, usually 50 to 70 feet high.

它们是最稀有的腾柱，也是最高的，通常有 50 到 70 英尺高。

Often, the artist who was hired to carve the totem pole would actually live with the family while they worked.

通常，被雇来雕刻腾柱的艺术家会在他们工作的时候和家人住在一起。

A totem pole is a big wooden sculpture, with lots of faces on it.

腾柱是一大木头雕塑，上面有很脸。

What a brilliant totem pole you've made!

你们做的腾柱么棒啊！

Like most highly skilled work, money was a big factor in who could have totem poles made and how extravagant they could be.

像大数技术含量很高的东西一样，金钱是决定谁能制作腾柱以及腾柱能够有奢侈的一重要因素。

Sadly, since totem poles are carved from wood and wood tends to rot over time in rainy places, like the Pacific Northwest, very few totem poles remained that were made before the 1900s.

不幸的是，由于腾柱是由木头雕刻而成的，在雨的地方，比如太平洋西北部，随着时间的推移，木头往往会腐烂，所以 20 世纪前制作的腾柱已经很少留存下来了。

Totem poles were carved from red or yellow cedar carved by hand and painted using traditional colors.

腾柱由手工雕刻的红色或黄色雪松雕刻而成，并使用传统颜色绘制。

No one can say for sure how long people have been making them, but the mid 1800s was definitely the peak for totem pole making.

没有人能确定制作腾柱已经有长时间的历史，但是 19 世纪中期绝对是腾柱制作的高峰。

They took weeks, sometimes months, to make and all that labor isn't cheap.

腾柱需要花几周，有时几月的时间来制造，而劳动力并不便宜。

The angels are stacked like a totem pole.

天使像腾柱一样堆叠。

Like Marie Watt's totem pole of blankets.

就像玛丽瓦特的毛毯腾柱。

Ministers, at the bottom of the totem pole, rarely ever get to use the plane.

部长们， 在腾柱的底部， 很少有机会使用飞机。

And carrying around with me like it's, like, a totem.

而且随身携带，就像它是腾一样。