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Doors! Where would we be without them? In a cold and draughty house, that’s where. But there’s no cold or draughts in Minecraft, so you’d be fair to ask why there are doors in the game. Honestly, we’re not totally sure. But it didn’t feel right to give people a way to build a house without also giving them the ability to add a door.
门！如果没有了门，我们将会住哪？在一个阴冷漏风的房子里，是这样没错。但 Minecraft 里并没有寒冷以及穿堂风的概念，所以你确实可以问为什么游戏里要有门。其实，我们也不太确定。但让玩家能制造房子，却不给他们制作门的能力，这感觉不太对。

Doors have, as you might imagine, been a part of Minecraft for a very long time. Since June 2010, to be specific, and they’ve barely changed at all since! But the good news is that there are now many different kinds of doors that you can install. Using a different material to construct a door lets you create ten different visually distinct doors.
正如你想象的那样，门作为 Minecraft 的一部分已经有相当长的一段时间了。具体来说是从2010年6月开始，并且在那以后它们几乎没有改变过！然而，好消息是你现在可以安装的门现在有很多个种类了。使用不同的材料进行制作，你可以做出10种视觉上不同的门。

Ah yes, constructing a door. Grab six planks of matching wood, or six iron ingots, and arrange them in crafting grid into the shape of a door – two wide and three high. Hey presto – you get a door! You can also steal doors from villages (you monster), from shipwrecks, strongholds, and woodland mansions.
对了，想要制作一个门。拿上6块相同材质的木板，或6个铁锭，然后在合成网格里将它们按照门的形状摆放 —— 两格宽三格高。欸，很快啊 —— 啪一下门就做好了！你还可以从村庄那偷门 (不讲武德)，或者从沉船、要塞以及林地府邸那里。

To install a door, place it on the top surface of any full-sized block or upside-down slab or stairs. The exact placement of the door and hinge will depend on the direction that you place it from, so experiment a little if it doesn’t immediately go where you want it to.
想要安装一个门，你只需将它放在任一个完整方块的顶面上，或者倒置的台阶及楼梯的顶面。门和铰链的确切位置取决于你放置它时所处的方向，所以如果它没能直接在你想要的位置时，可以多尝试几次。

Once installed, you can open and close a wooden door by aiming at it and pressing the use button. Players, villagers, and some mobs can open wooden doors, and they can also be broken down by some mobs in Hard difficulty. Redstone will open a door too – a pressure plate or switch next to a door is a nice way of doing this, and the pressure plate even looks a little like a doormat. Iron doors can only be opened with a redstone pulse.
一旦安装完成，你就可以开启和关闭一个木门，通过鼠标对准它然后按下使用键的方式。玩家、村民和一些生物可以打开木门，同时困难模式下还会有某些生物可以破坏木门。红石也可以开启一扇门 —— 在门旁边放上一个压力板或拉杆就是一个很好的主意，同时压力板甚至看起来像一个门垫。铁门只能被红石脉冲开启。

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The earliest recorded doors show up in the paintings in Egyptian tombs, but they seem to have been in wide use across the ancient world. Archaeologists have unearthed a 5,000-year-old door in Switzerland, and the Bible mentions a few examples too.
第一扇有历史记载的门是在古埃及陵墓的壁画上被展示出来的，但远古时期门似乎是被广泛使用的。考古家在瑞士发掘出一个有5000年历史的门，并且《圣经》也有提到一些门的例子。

The earliest automatic door, incredibly, dates back to the first century AD, built by Greek scholar Heron of Alexandria. The first automatic door operated by a foot sensor was created in China in the 7th century, and was installed in the royal library of Emperor Yang of Sui. Gates powered by water are also featured in illustrations of the automatons of the Arab inventor Al-Jazari.
世界上第一扇自动门，有些难以置信，早在公元 1 世纪就由古希腊亚历山大城的学者海伦制造出来了。世界上第一扇使用压感打开的门则是在7世纪的古中国创造出来的，它被安装在了隋炀帝的甘露殿^[1]里。阿拉伯发明家 Al-Jazari也设计了水力驱动的自动门。

The largest doors in the world, though, belong to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each of its four doors are 139 meters high, large enough to move the enormous Saturn launch vehicles through. They take 45 (!) minutes to open and close.
同时，世界上最大的门是在佛罗里**肯尼迪航天中心的航天器装配大楼。它的四个门板都有 139 米高，足够让土星运载火箭穿过。它们需要45 (!)分钟的时间来开启和关闭。

So next time you’re waiting for a door to open at the Vehicle Assembly Building, consider fitting in a little Minecraft while you wait. You’ll undoubtedly be glad you did!
所以下一次你在等待航天器装配大楼开门时^(?)，不妨在等待的时间里玩一小会 Minecraft。你一定会感到快乐的！

[1] 经考证，隋唐宫殿内，用于皇帝读书的地方叫作甘露殿，见百度百科-tai极宫。


【Don_Trueno 译自官网 2022 年 09 月 29 日发布的 Taking Inventory: Door；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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