CULTURE

We all know the story of Rapunzel, right? Woman gets trapped in tower because she lost her keys or something. Dashing hero comes to save her but can't because he's actually useless. So Rapunzel grows her hair ridiculously long, hangs it out of the window, and Useless Hero Guy climbs up her hair and saves her! Hooray! But wait, wouldn't they just both be trapped in the tower then? Who writes this drivel?
我们都有听过长发公主的故事吧？有个姑娘因为忘记了塔的钥匙，于是就被困在塔顶之类的，于是就有个勇士来救她了，但是其实没法救的，因为这个勇者太没用了，于是长发公主放下了她长的出奇的长发，挂在窗外，让无用的勇者顺着头发爬上了塔，救了她！好耶！但是等一下，这样一来不就是两个人都困在了塔里吗？谁写的这玩意儿？

Anyway! I was so inspired by Rapunzel, I decided to grow my hair to tower-long lengths too! It was awful. The worst idea of all time. Took nineteen hairdressers to fix. One called it “the greatest sin upon the human head I've ever witnessed.” Everyone's a critic.
不管啦！我读完长发公主深有感触，我决定将我的头发也留到高塔那么长！太可怕了，这是有史以来最糟糕的点子。大概要消耗十九个理发师才能整好。有评论说，这是“我所见过的人头顶过的最大的罪行”。大家都想做批评家。

Luckily, when MuhBuilds was inspired by Rapunzel, he didn't grow a terrible new haircut. Instead, the story of Rapunzel inspired him to construct today's build, the wonderful Endurance Mast .
幸运的是，MuhBuilds读完长发公主后，并没有选择留一个糟糕透顶的发型。与之相反，长发公主的故事反倒启发他去建造了我们今天要介绍的建筑——《Endurance Mast》。

This tower is a beautiful homage to the fables and fairytales of old and the enchanting art that often accompanies them. Updated with that blocktacular Minecraft look!
这座塔是对那些古老的寓言与童话以及随之而来的艺术之美的一种敬意。用我的世界的方块外观给它升了个级。

MuhBuilds used 3D models of the tower from the Walt Disney retelling of Rapunzel to get a sense of how to begin building the foundations. But he had his own story in mind for this new take on the tower.
MuhBuilds使用了来自沃尔特·迪士尼复述的长发公主中的塔的三维模型以了解应该怎样建筑基础部分。但是关于他的新塔，他有着自己的故事。

As he tells it in one version of the story, the Endurance Mast is a mirage, moving from place to place, rarely seen for more than a glance. Even in the tale MuhBuilds has imagined for it, it isn’t clear to anyone if the tower is real or not, or if anyone resides there.
而在他另一个版本的故事里，这样的一个桅杆是某种海市蜃楼，总是从一个地方移动到另一个地方，人们难得才能看上一眼。甚至在MuhBuilds所想象之中，人们甚至不确定这座塔是否真的存在或是否有人居住。

As to how he managed to build it, MuhBuilds started by constructing the shape of the tower, then added details and colours. After this first step, he says he spent a lot of time “creating a lot of palettes, and after [that], choosing the best one.” This process, he explains, is called texturing.
至于MuhBuilds是如何建造这座塔的，他先雕琢出这座塔的外形，然后给它添加上细节与色彩，在这一步之后，据他所说，他在配色的选择上花了很多的时间，而这个过程，他本人称作贴图。

After that, MuhBuilds built the piers and the landscape. “Finally,” he says, “I added some extra details and the [lanterns] of the tower. The texturing was made by following a particular light point, and that is that of the lanterns.”
在那之后，MuhBuilds建造出了那个突出的码头以及其余风景，“最后，我又加上了一点点细节，再补上了塔上的灯笼。纹理一般是根据某些特定的光点添加的，而那些就是来自于灯笼。”

When I ask how MuhBuilds was first inspired to build in Minecraft, he explains, “I was inspired by the work of builders better than me. For example, in Italy, Levin, Eonli and Dan27. Afterward, I also met foreign builders who have fascinated me deeply. Such as Udvio,Dr_Bond and Franjo Schnabel.”
当我问起MuhBuilds是如何想到要在我的世界之中搭建建筑的时候，他解释道：“我被一些比我厉害的建筑师所激励了，比如说，来自意大利的建筑师，Levin、Eonli以及Dan27。在那之后，我又遇到一些外国的建筑师，他们也深深地吸引了我，比如说 Udvio、 Dr_Bond 还有 Franjo Schnabel。”

He continues, “Many Italian builders helped me [by] explaining not only how to build well, but also how to put emotion in a build. To transform a simple Minecraft world into a story, an idea.”
他接着说道，“很多意大利的建筑师也帮我讲解了怎样把建筑建好，也教我怎样在建筑中融入自己的情感，使一个简单的存档变成一个故事又一个想法。”

That said, not everything can go so smoothly. “While I was building the tower,” he tells me, “I was excited by the project so I stayed [at] the PC [for] many hours in the day. My mother raged and deprived me of the PC for ten days. I had to study very, very much to convince my mother to leave me using the PC again.”
也就是说，事情并不是一帆风顺的。“但我建造这个塔的时候，我沉迷于其中，所以我每天都在电脑上花了好几个小时，我的母亲很生气，连续十余天不让我碰电脑，所以我不得不好好学习，才能说服我的母亲让我再次使用电脑。”

As much as we love good builds, sometimes you have to make compromises, and if one of those compromises is studying to earn your build time, that’s probably not the worst thing. I mean, look at me. I never studied for anything and now I work for Mojang! Er, bad example.
尽管我们都喜欢好的建筑，但是有时候你总得做出些妥协，假如你是以学习换得建筑用的时间，那其实并不差。我是说，瞧瞧我，我啥都没学过，但是我现在在为mojang工作！呃，这例子举得太差了。

【我 译自官网 2017 年 12 月 11 日发布的 Mast-ery!；原作者 Emily Richardson】
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