Most kids have a stuffed animal they love.
大多数孩子有他们喜欢的毛绒动物。
Some kids have tons of them.
有些孩子有很多。
But have you ever stopped and wondered who actually invented stuffed animals in the first place?
但是，你有没有停下来想想是谁发明了毛绒动物呢？
Let's find out on today's episode of Colossal Questions.
让我们在今天的十万个为什么中一探究竟吧。
The very first dolls in the ancient world were made of hard stuff like wood or clay.
古代世界中最早的洋娃娃是用木头或粘土等坚硬的东西制成的。
But the stuffed animal as we know it today really started with the invention of the rag doll sometime around 2, 000 Yearsago.
但是，我们今天所知道的毛绒动物实际上是始于距今约2千年前的布娃娃的发明。
The oldest rag dolls ever found were stuffed with rags, papyrus, or hay and usually woven with colorful string and trinkets like beads.
有史以来最古老的布娃娃塞满了布、布草纸或干草，通常用五颜六色的绳子和小饰品，如珠子，进行编制。
Over the next thousand some odd years, rag dolls remained a super popular toy for kids around the world in different cultures and classes.
在接下来的几千年里，布娃娃仍然是世界各地不同文化和阶层的孩子们中最流行的玩具。
Eventually, in the early 1800s, the Industrial Revolution started in England.
最终，在1800年代初期，工业革命在英国开始了。
And before long, rag dolls went from being handmade to mass produced in ractories just like tons of other toys and
不久之后，布娃娃就从手工制作变成了像大量其他玩具和产品一样在工厂大量生产。
Innovations, with the ability to print colorful or patterned fabrics, allowed companies to manufacture dolls that were super vibrant and super quick to make.
有了能够印刷彩色或有图案的织物的创新，公司可以制造出栩栩如生且制造速度超快的玩偶。
OK.
好的。
So that's how ancient wooden dolls morphed into soft and squishy rag dolls.
文就是古；的木制娃娃是如何变成柔软的布娃娃的。
But when did the stuffed animal come along?
但是毛绒玩具是什么时候来的呢？
When did stuffed dolls give way to stuffed animals like the teddy bear?
毛绒娃娃是什么时候让位给泰迪熊这样的毛绒动物呢？
Well, it started in the late 1800s, when a German woman named Margarete Steiff invented the very first known stuffed animal, an adorable little elephant that was meant to be a pincushion.
额，它始于1800年代后期，当时一位名叫玛格丽特•史蒂夫的德国女士发明了第一个已知的毛绒动物，这是一只可爱的小象，原本是是用作一个针垫。
But a couple of years later, Margarete's nephew Richard took her idea and turned it into a toy for kids, a stuffed bear.
但是几年后，玛格丽特的侄子理查德继承了她的想法，并将其变成了给孩子们玩的玩具，也就是毛绒玩具熊。
Their new fangled doll hit stores just a few years later in 1902.
仅仅在几年后的1902年，他们新奇的玩具就横扫各大商店。
Around the same time, a Russian immigrant named Morris Michtom living across the Atlantic in the United States came up with his own design for a stuffed bear toy.
大约在同一时间.一为生活在美国的大西洋名为莫里斯•米希托姆的俄罗斯移民想出了自己的设计，用于填充毛绒玩具。
Mr. Michtom based the design on a famous cartoon he saw in the newspaper.
米希托姆先生的设计基于他在报纸上看到的著名漫画。
The drawing shows President Teddy Roosevelt out on a bear hunt with a-group of his pals.
那副画上的泰迪•罗斯福总统与一群朋友一起在猎熊。
Roosevelt was known as an avid hunter but just didn't feel right striking down a defenseless animal, so he told his men to let the bear go free.
罗斯福以狂热的猎人而闻名，但他觉得猎杀没有防御能力的动物这件事情并不正确，因此他告诉他的手下放过那只熊。
Artists made the bear in the cartoon look adorable, and Morris Michtom knew it had to be a toy.
艺术家使卡通中的熊看起来很可爱，莫里斯•米奇托姆觉得它肯定是玩具。
He sent a prototype of his inspired invention to Teddy Roosevelt himself and got the president's permission to use his nickname on the toy.
他将自己一时灵感所发明的原型发送给了泰迪•罗斯福本人，并得到了总统的允许，可以在玩具上使用他的昵称。
And just like that, the legend of the teddy bear was born.
就这样，泰迪熊的传奇诞生了。
Both versions of the teddy bear were an instant smash success in Europe and the US.
两种版本的泰迪熊在欧洲和美国都立即大获成功。
So whether your favorite stuffed animal is a bear, a bird, a badger, or any other kind of creature, you can thank the good old teddy bear and the president who inspired it for your fluffy friend.
因此，无论你最喜欢的毛绒动物是熊、乌、獾，还是其他的任何生物，你都可以感谢那头古老的泰迪熊和以及启发了你的毛茸茸的朋友的总统。
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