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hello everyone

大家好

degraph here with your mid week Wednesday

我是德格拉夫，为您带来周中周三的

BBC News round

BBC新闻综述

stick with me for all of this

请继续收看

we take a look at the new species of monkey

我们来了解新猴种

find out what you can do to help bumblebees in the heat

看看高温天如何帮助大黄蜂

and do you have what it takes to be a rubik's Champ

你有资格成为魔方冠军吗？

but first what do Sean

但首先，肖恩

the sheep or Wallace and Grommet and Morph

小羊、超级无敌掌门狗、莫夫

all have in common

有什么共同点？

the answer

答案是

were they're all characters made by the world famous

它们都出自全球知名的

Aardman Animations

阿德曼动画工作室

now this year

今年

is their 50th anniversary

是他们成立50周年

so we thought it was only right to look back

所以我们理应回顾

at where it all began

他们的起源

take it away Nina

交给你了，妮娜

are we sipping comfortably

喝得还舒服吗？

mm

嗯

hmm

唔

aardman Animations is turning 50

阿德曼动画今年就50岁了

and it's definitely in the words of Wallace

正如华莱士说的

one for the album

值得纪念的一刻

because these famous characters weren't

这些知名角色并非

always household names

一直家喻户晓

oh no it all started back in the 1970s

一切始于上世纪70年代

when 2 school friends started to experiment with

当时两个同窗好友尝试制作

animation my father had a wind up cine camera

动画。我父亲有台发条电影摄像机

and I said why don't we get that out of the cupboard

我提议把它从柜子里拿出来

and set it up

架好

and just play around on the kitchen table

就在餐桌上试试

after playing around the pair

试了一阵后，两人

discovered plaster scene

发现了橡皮泥

which is when aardman's first star was born

阿德曼的首个明星就此诞生

when I think that when we started out there was David

我们刚起步时，只有大卫

me and we had the model in play and the

我，还有我们的模型，以及

16 no camera out of the whole company

全公司仅有的一台16毫米相机

it's just quite amazing how the hobby is it's sort of

真的不可思议，这个爱好居然

grown from him

发展到今天的规模

every way that you

你摆放角色的

position a body tells the audience something

每个姿势都在向观众传递信息

so in this case he's standing quite proud

比如现在他站得很挺拔

with his hands on his hips

双手叉腰

we take one picture we call that a frame

我们拍一张照片，这叫一帧

it's a terribly laborious process

这个过程非常耗时费力

but the end result is really worthwhile

但最终成果非常值得

but it was the arrival of a student from Preston

直到一名来自普雷斯顿的学生加入

when things really took off for the animation studio

工作室的事业才真正腾飞

because he brought with him 2 characters

因为他带来了两个角色

that I think you'll recognize

你肯定能认出来

I was thinking you may have a pet

我猜你可能养了宠物

probably a cat

大概率是猫

started drawing a cat but

一开始我画了猫，但

as soon as I started making the clay model

等做黏土模型的时候

it a dog just was easy to make

发现做狗更省事

we'll go somewhere where there's cheese

我们去找有芝士的地方

and it wasn't long until the inventor

没过多久，这位发明家

and his trusty dog

和他的忠犬

was scooping up the biggest prize in Hollywood

拿下了好莱坞最高奖

and the Oscar goes to

奥斯卡得主是

thank you I don't believe it

谢谢，我简直不敢相信

I'd just like to thank

我要感谢

company directors

各位公司董事

thank you

谢谢大家

and with their new shiny prize

拿到这个大奖后

the team started on their next big challenge

团队开启了下一项大挑战

a film from Chicken Run

继《小鸡快跑》之后

came the Curse of the Were Rabbits

他们推出了《人兔的诅咒》

A Matter of Loaf and Death and Shawn the Sheep Movie

还有《面包生死劫》和《小羊肖恩》

so if your family has an old camera

如果你家有闲置旧相机

knocking around the house

放在家里没人用的

why don't you give it a dust up

不妨拿出来擦干净

who knows what it could lead to

说不定能有意