Ukraine's Got Talent

底下是我自己翻譯的，翻得不好請別打我。


Sit down & watch, it is brilliant. Read this first to help understand

坐下看，這非常的才華洋溢，先讀這些文字可以幫助你了解。

This video shows the winner of "Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.

這個影片是"Ukraine’s Got Talent" (烏克蘭有才能，一個比賽節目。) 的冠軍，二十四歲的 Kseniya Simonova 做了一連串的沙畫展現出普通人是怎麼被二戰德國的侵犯所影響。她的才能無可否認的確是奇怪的一個，看了會著迷。

The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.

那些影像投影在大螢幕上，讓許多觀眾感動到流淚，而她則是贏了七萬五千歐元的頭獎。

She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.

她先製作了一個畫面展現一對情侶（夫妻）握著手，坐在滿天星空下的長椅上，但戰機卻毀滅了這美麗的畫面。

It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again.. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.

畫面被女人哭泣的臉龐給取代，但一個嬰兒的出現又讓女人展現笑容。 戰爭又再度降臨，Simonova 把沙子丟到混亂之中，然後出現一個年輕女人的臉。

She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.

她很快的變成了老寡婦，她的臉上滿是皺紋跟悲傷，接著畫面變成了一個不知名軍人的紀念碑。

This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.

外面的景色被窗戶給框起來，好像我們是從房子往外看著那紀念碑。

In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.

最後的畫面，一個媽媽跟小孩出現在房子裡面，然後一個男人站在窗外將他的手按著玻璃，道再見。

The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.

烏克蘭稱這戰爭為 "The Great Patriotic War" (偉大的愛國戰爭？)，此戰爭讓四分之一的人口被殺，四千兩百萬人裡面死了八百萬到一千一百萬人。



Kseniya Simonova says: "I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."

Kseniya Simonova 說：我覺得用紙筆或畫筆來製作藝術已經很難了，用沙跟手指更是遠遠超出我想像（這裡我真不知道翻得對不對）。藝術，尤其主題是戰爭時，甚至會帶給觀眾眼淚。我很確定沒有任何比那更好的讚美（這裡是指觀眾的眼淚）。