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。

These brave words, said in a piercing voice, made all the other Marionettes cry.

这番话说得慷慨激昂，声调豪迈激昂，在场木偶听了没有不哭。

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

你把米吉变成了木偶木偶？太棒了！

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

你是一个真正木偶，台上一切！

You are like marionettes forced to dance while the Palestinian leadership looks on with glee.

你们就像被牵线木偶，而巴勒斯坦领导层则在一旁高兴地看着你们。

" 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，但木偶周围人却可以做非常坏事。”

328.to take Lily to see the Russian marionettes.

想带莉莉去看俄罗斯木偶秀。

106.that the marionettes are not kind to latecomers.

那些木偶们对迟到者可不友善。

The theater was full of people, enjoying the spectacle and laughing till they cried at the antics of the two Marionettes.

剧院里坐满了人，欣赏着精彩，两个木偶滑稽举止让他们笑得眼泪都来了。

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，上椅子玩起洋娃娃来。

Because Marionettes never grow. They are born Marionettes, they live Marionettes, and they die Marionettes.

“因为木偶是从来不长大。他们生下来是木偶，活着是木偶，死了也是木偶。”

Okay, this might be a good time to mention to you that the marionettes are not kind to latecomers. They bend over and show their bloomers.

好吧，那我正好不用顾忌地告诉你：那些木偶们对迟到者可不友善。他们会弯下腰，露灯笼裤，以示嘲弄。

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，你在中途去厕所会被鄙视。那些木偶会停下动作，行进到台边缘，然后指着你。

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，制作包含复杂工艺，要在夜幕掩护下，原料涉及可乐果和公鸡。

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年代，尽管卡马拉先生心存疑虑，但还是在城市公司在给马里人做类似艾滋病和童工普及教育时，和她在国家木偶剧团同台。

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巫师是操纵木偶人，而他们上方那几个人是牵线木偶，被从魔杖里冒向空中无形绳子控制着。

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、面具和代表死者独特神圣雕像而闻名。

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.

凯塔政府“明白艺术是创造国家认同和把人民团结在一起重要组成部分，”华盛顿国家自然历史博物馆馆长、木偶文化专家玛丽·乔·阿诺尔迪表示。