Almost every Mexican village has its folk art tradition - areas will specialise in ceramics, wooden animals, weaving, tin, rugs or silver jewellery.

几乎每一座墨西哥村庄都有当地民间艺术传承——陶瓷、木雕动物、编织品、锡器、毯子或者银饰，各有专长。

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Like the wooden animals, they seem all to be descended from the same bland and adorable ancestor, a wide-eyed, thin-lipped soul with barely any nose and a mane of boucle hair.

像木制的动物一样，他们都像从一种温和的，可爱的祖先进化来的，这种动物眼睛大大的，嘴唇很薄，几乎没有鼻子，带着毛茸茸的绒毛。

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They lived in small villages protected by wooden walls from the animals outside.

他们住在由木墙保护的小村庄里，不受外面动物的侵害。

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Off to his right, beyond a wooden gate, dozens of stuffed animals and toy cars were stacked neatly on shelves lining the wall, held up as special rewards rather than put out every day as objects for play and learning.

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The stone cages would have held the tigers, lions and other exotic animals that were hoisted in wooden elevators through 80 vertical tunnels up to the arena. 2000 years ago, it must have been chaos down here with the gladiators, animals, large sets for other parts of the productions and hundreds of stagehands putting on the show.

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