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Most of Minecraft’s items are very common. Sapling . Torch . Seeds . Flint . Even those that are a little more unusual are often straightforward to craft if you wanted to. Horse Armour . Cookie . Bucket of Fish . Tripwire Hook .
大多数MC中的物品都是寻常不起眼的，比如树苗,火把,种子,燧石。但是只要你想的话，即便是某些不常见的物品也是可以直接合成获得的。比如马铠。曲奇饼干，鱼桶，绊线钩。

But some of Minecraft’s items are quite a lot rarer, and not possible to craft. Rabbit’s foot . Phantom membrane . Dragon’s Breath . If you can acquire one of these items, it’s usually a good sign that you’re a talented player. So why not showcase your talent in your home by framing the trophy you acquired? For that, you’ll need our item of the week⁠ – ⁠the item frame.
但是MC中的一部分物品却非常稀有，它们是不能通过合成获得的。比如兔子脚，幻翼膜，龙息。如果你能获得它们之中的某一个，那表明你是一位极具天赋的MC玩家。所以为什么不在家里把这些稀有物品装裱起来，同时还能展现你高超的游戏技艺呢？所以，你需要我们的本周明星物品⁠ —— 物品展示框。

Item frames were added to Minecraft in the Pretty Scary Update in October 2012, which also added command blocks, anvils, pumpkin pie, and the Wither. They only have one purpose⁠ – ⁠to show off an item contained within.
物品展示框是在201210月万圣节骇人更新中加入MC的，同时一起加入的还有命令方块，铁砧，南瓜派和凋零。而物品展示框的加入只有一个目的⁠ —— ⁠展示物品。

You can get hold of item frames from some high-level cartographer villagers, but they’re pricey at seven emeralds. You can also loot them from an End ship, where they generate naturally. But probably the easiest way to acquire one is just to craft it ⁠– ⁠surround a piece of leather (the background) with sticks (the frame).
你可以与高级绘图师村民交易获得物品展示框，但是这要花费你7颗绿宝石。你也可以从自然生成的末地船中获得物品展示框。但是最容易获得的方式可能就是直接合成吧 ⁠—— 把一块皮革 (展示背景) 用木棍围起来 (框架)。

You can place an item frame on the sides, top, and bottom of any solid block, as well as cactus, pressure plates, fences, trees, slabs, walls, chests, and doors⁠ –⁠ making them very versatile. Once placed, grab the item you want to put in it and hit the “use” button while pointing at the frame. Voila. It’s beautiful. Hitting use on a full frame with an item in it will rotate the item, and that rotation can be measured with the use of a redstone comparator.
你可以在任何实心方块的侧面，顶部，底部放置物品展示框，甚至可以放置在仙人掌，压力板，栅栏，树木，台阶，墙，箱子和门上 ——⁠ 使其一目了然。放置完成后，手持你要放入的物品对准展示框按下“使用”按钮。嗯，真的很漂亮。当你点击装有物品的展示框时，内部的物品会转动，然后旋转角度可以使用红石比较器进行测量。

There’s also a cool bit of functionality involving item frames and maps. Putting a map in an item frame will enlarge the map to the size of a full block. This is a great way to create a huge map of your territory on a floor or wall⁠ – ⁠something else to show off to your friends.
同时还有一个由地图和物品展示框共同完成的炫酷功能，把一张地图放入物品展示框后它会占满整个方块，这可是在地板或者墙上建造超大地图的好办法——又是向朋友们炫耀的好方法。

In the real world, we usually call item frames “picture frames” and they’re widely used in many cultures. They serve a few purposes⁠ – ⁠first to protect the picture within, sometimes with a sheet of glass or plastic over the top, but also as a way to set a picture apart from its surroundings and integrate it aesthetically within them.
在现实世界中，我们把物品展示框称为“相框”，这种物品被广泛应用于全世界的文化领域。它们有几个用途 —— 首先是保护内部的图画不受破坏，通常会有一层玻璃或者透明塑料覆盖其上，其次是它们可以将图画与周围的环境区分开来的同时又完美融入环境，这在美学上大有讲究。

The earliest picture frames are thought to have been **s that surrounded portraits of upper-class Ancient Egyptians that had been mummified⁠ – ⁠one of the only remnants of the art of that time. About 900 of these portraits were found in the necropolis of Faiyum, preserved by the hot dry Egyptian climate. In many cases, the portraits were framed by plaster, or sometimes layers of cloth wrapping of the same time that held the body itself.
公认的最早的相框是那些⁠被做成木乃伊的古埃及贵族的画像。大约有900幅这样的画像在Faiyum（法尤姆）的陵墓中被发掘出来，它们在埃及干燥的气候中得以保存。在大多数情况下，这些画像都是被灰泥框起来的，而有些时候是用包裹木乃伊的布一起把画像包裹起来。

But the first carved wooden picture frames, as we know them today, didn’t emerge until centuries later⁠ – ⁠in the twelfth and thirteenth century in Europe. The first examples were made of a single block of wood, with an interior carved out that could then be painted on. A more efficient technique of surrounding a painting with strips of wood was invented over the next century or so, which proved highly popular ⁠– ⁠especially in churches, which built them into their architecture.
但是用木头雕刻而成的相框，就和我们今天熟知的一样，是在许多个世纪以后才出现的⁠ —— 十二，十三世纪的欧洲。第一个例子是直接用一块木头制成的，直接把木头内部镂空使得相框内可以作画。而更加有效的用木条围成相框的方法直到一个世纪之后才出现，这样的技术被广泛应用——尤其是在教堂，建筑者们把相框应用于建筑内饰。

Today, you’d be hard pressed to find a real-world home that doesn’t have a picture frame of some sort in it. So make sure that when you’re figuring out how to decorate your next cobblestone mansion, you leave space for a handful of item frames. They’ll turn your Minecraft house into a real home.
如今，现实生活中几乎所有人的家里都有相框。所以下次当你思考如何装饰你的石头房子时，你一定要给物品展示框留点空间。它们能把你的石头房子变成真正的家。




【Srar 译自官网 2021 年 05 月 06 日发布的 Taking Inventory: Item Frame；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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