(单词翻译:单击)
Walt Disney was an American artist, a film producer, and founder of the entertainment conglomerate the Disney Company.
沃尔特·迪士尼是一位美国艺术家、电影制片人，也是娱乐集团迪士尼公司的创始人。
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois.
沃尔特·伊莱亚斯·迪斯尼1901年12月5日出生在伊利诺伊州的芝加哥。
As he moved around the Midwestern United States with his family, Walt discovered an interest in art.
当他和家人在美国中西部四处走动时，沃尔特发现了他对艺术的兴趣。
By the time he entered high school, he had already sought out a correspondence course and begun to study cartooning.
到他上高中的时候，就找了一门函授课程，开始学习漫画。
In 1922 Walt Disney and the animator Ub Iwerks opened an independent art studio creating short advertisements and comedic sketches.
1922年，沃尔特·迪士尼和动画师乌布·伊沃克斯开设了一个独立的艺术工作室，创作广告短片和喜剧小品。
Though the venture soon shut down, Disney, his brother Roy, and Iwerks started again in California with a new studio creating animated films.
虽然这家公司很快就关闭了，但迪士尼同他的兄弟罗伊和伊沃克斯在加州重新成立了一家制作动画电影的新工作室。
From that studio came the idea of a new character...Who would later become the iconic Disney Company spokesman Mickey Mouse.
从那个工作室产生了一个创造新角色的想法，也就是后来迪士尼的标志性发言人米老鼠（米奇）。
In 1934 Disney began work on his studio's first feature-length animated film: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, one of the first-ever projects to prove animation's capacity for long-form narrative.
1934年，迪士尼开始制作他工作室的第一部长篇动画电影：白雪公主和七个小矮人，这是最早证明动画具有长篇叙事能力的项目之一。
Snow White was quickly followed by Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi, and Fantasia--and the opening of a new studio in Burbank to keep up with the demand for new releases.
紧随《白雪公主》之后的是《木偶奇遇记》、《小飞象》、《小鹿斑比》和《幻想曲》——为了满足新电影的需求，伯班克的新工作室也开张了。
After that small feat of changing the world of film forever, Walt Disney moved to his next big project: Disneyland, a California theme park that opened in 1955.
在这一改变电影世界的小壮举之后，沃尔特·迪士尼开始着手他的下一个大项目：1955年开放的加州主题公园迪斯尼乐园。
Though more Disney parks followed — in Florida and overseas — Disneyland was the only one created entirely under the supervision of Walt Disney himself.
尽管随后在佛罗里达和海外有更多的迪士尼乐园，但加州的迪士尼乐园是唯一一个完全由华特·迪士尼自己管理的乐园。
Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, in Los Angeles, California, about a month after undergoing surgery for lung cancer.
1966年12月15日，沃尔特·迪士尼在接受肺癌手术约一个月后在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶去世。
By the end of the 20th century, his company would be one of the world's largest entertainment conglomerates and regularly rank among the top 50 companies in America.
到20世纪末，他的公司成为世界上最大的娱乐集团之一，经常排在美国公司前50名。
