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William Courage hasn't put on a circus performance since March 2020.
威廉-庫爾奇自2020年3月以來就沒有再上演過馬戲表演。
Instead, his family's traveling circus has been parked on a plot of land in southern France.
而他家的旅行馬戲團卻一直停在法國南部的一塊土地上。
His lions and tigers are confined to their pens on his main tent is packed up.
他的獅子和老虎被關在他的主帳篷上的筆筒裡,他的主帳篷已經收拾好了。
Carriage can only guess when France is locked down, one of the toughest in Europe will ease, and he'll be allowed to start entertaining.
馬車只能猜測,當法國被鎖定後,歐洲最艱難的一個國家會緩解,他將被允許開始娛樂。
The crowds again.
眾人又。
Way are a fundamental of culture.
方式是文化的根本。
We usually the first show someone sees in their life.
我們通常是別人一生中看到的第一個節目。
We go to the circus before we could go to the theater or the cinema.
我們去馬戲團之前,我們可以去劇院或電影院。
So it's important that circuses continue.
所以,馬戲團繼續存在很重要。
This French tradition carriage feels abandoned by the state, even though it spent tens of billions of euros propping up businesses.
這輛法國傳統的馬車感覺被國家拋棄了,儘管它花了幾百億歐元扶持企業。
He received financial support of €2 a day per animal during the spring lock, down a fraction of what was needed on nothing since.
他在春鎖期間,每隻動物每天得到2歐元的資金支持,比起此後什麼都不需要的資金減少了一小部分。
Even then, his livelihood faces another threat.
即便如此,他的生計也面臨著另一種威脅。
A proposed ban on wild animals in circuses.
提議禁止馬戲團中的野生動物。
So Sundays anymore, diminish.
所以週日了,減少。
Parliament is debating the draft legislation, which is likely to be passed.
議會正在對立法草案進行辯論,該草案有可能獲得通過。
If approved, the ban will be phased in over five years.
如果獲得準許,該禁令將在5年內分階段實施。
The the minister's announcement seem arbitrary to us.
在我們看來,部長的宣佈似乎是武斷的。
We could lose our animals.
我們可能會失去我們的動物。
Our professions are structures on our traditions.
我們的專業是我們傳統上的結構。
That's what we're afraid off for, something that's quite arbitrary carrots.
這就是我們怕關的原因,很隨意胡蘿蔔的東西。
His daughter, Cassandra, has performed all her life.
他的女兒卡桑德拉,一生都在表演。
She dismissed any suggestion the families animals were mistreated.
她駁斥了任何家庭動物被虐待的說法。
E can't see a circus without animals.
沒有動物的馬戲團是不行的。
For me, it's impossible.
對我來說,這是不可能的。
I grew up with them or the animals.
我是和他們或者動物一起長大的。
For me, a part of our family.
對我來說,是我們家庭的一部分。
Hippopotamus is the same age as my brother.
河馬和我弟弟同齡。
I grew up with him.
我和他一起長大的。
And so it's true that taking our lives away from us will be the most difficult part if this actually passes.
所以說,如果這件事真的過去了,奪走我們的生命才是最困難的。