摩西奶奶：生活是由我们自己创造的

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[00:02.20]21 Grandma Moses	摩西祖母
[00:07.18](By Neil Eskelin)	（译/王海涛）
[00:09.51]At the age of eighty, a farmer's wife in Cambridge, Virginia, suffered from painful arthritis . 在维吉利亚的坎布里奇，有位农妇在她80岁时深受关节炎的痛苦折磨。
[00:18.10]The mother of ten children and many grandchildren - and great-grandchildren - 她有十个子女，还有一群孙辈、曾孙辈的孩子。
[00:24.00]loved to do needle work, but her fingers could no longer manipulate the needle to embroider .	她爱针线活， 只是手指已不能熟练地拿针绣花了。
[00:30.18]The elderly woman looked for something else that would keep her occupied and found she could hold a small paintbrush much easier than a needle. 这位老妇开始寻找其他一些可以让她的生活充实起来的事情，她发现比起拿针，拿一支小的油画笔要容易得多。
[00:40.20]So she tried her hand painting. 于是她开始尝试画画。
[00:43.11]She thought her farm and country scenes were good enough to show at the Cambridge Fair, but only won prizes for her jams and canned fruit. 她觉得她画的农场和乡村风景非常美丽，足以在坎布里奇集市上展示，但却只给她换来了果酱和水果罐头。
[00:52.94]There were no blue ribbons for her art.	她的作品从未获得过最高荣誉。
[00:56.18]Then one day an art collector from New York City was traveling through the village and noticed several of her paintings for sale in a local drug store. 有一天，一位来自纽约的艺术品收藏家旅行经过这个村庄。在一个当地的药店，他注意到了那位农妇放在那里出售的一些油画。
[01:06.74]When he showed them to his friends in the art circles of Manhattan, they were more than curious.	当他把这些作品拿给他在曼哈顿艺术圈的朋友们看时，他们无比惊讶。
[01:13.98]Soon, "Grandma Moses" gained an international reputation. 不久，“摩西祖母”获得了国际性的声誉。
[01:18.84]Her widely-collected works of art were featured on calendars, greeting cards and in exhibitions in leading galleries including the Modern Museum of Art in New York.	她那被广泛收藏的艺术作品被印制在日历上、贺卡上，并在包括纽约现代艺术馆在内的顶级画廊的展览会上展出。
[01:30.43]Even more amazing, twenty-five percent of her 1,500 popular paintings were done after she was 100!	而更令人惊讶的是，在她1500幅受欢迎的油画中，25%都是她在百岁之后完成的！
[01:41.70]"And life is what we make it,always has been,always will be. - "“生活是由我们自己创造的，过去总是这样，将来也会如此。”――
[01:47.41]"Grandma Moses" once said."	“摩西祖母”曾这样说过。

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摩西奶奶：生活是由我们自己创造的