There were scores of masks,

那里出土了大量面具

There were giant masks

有些体积巨大

which probably stood in some sort of temple.

可能被安放在某种神殿内

There were little itty-bitty masks,

也有些非常小巧的

There were masks that were user-friendly,

还有些则很适合人使用

that almost certainly could be worn on the face.

几乎能确定能将它们戴在脸上

They all have huge eyes.

它们都有巨大的眼睛

This one, you can still see a few traces of black paint.

这个面具上依然能看到黑色颜料的痕迹

They were painted black.

它们原本被漆成黑色

Dashing eyebrows.

剑眉

Diamond-shaped eyes.

菱形眼睛

Nothing in the rest of ancient China has ever been discovered

古代中国发现的其他所有文物

remotely like these faces, like these heads.

和这些面孔 这些头像都毫无相似之处

The bronze is the same,

同样都是青铜

the figures and faces are not.

人物与相貌则迥异

Nothing that can tell us anything about the people

我们无法从任何现存遗迹中了解

who made these objects has survived.

铸造这些物品的人

There are no writings,

没有文字记载

no other histories to tell us who they were.

亦无其他史料告诉我们他们是谁

It's been suggested that some of the masks

有人猜测某些面具

might have been used in rituals by

有可能在降灵仪式中

impersonators of the dead -

被巫师使用

those enormous eyes which see beyond the world,

那些能看透尘世的巨眼

the ears which might hear what the departed say.

那些能聆听死者的耳朵