Mickey Mouse celebrates his 83rd birthday
米老鼠的不老傳奇：賀米奇83歲高壽

Mickey Mouse, Disney’s famous, glove-wearing rodent, celebrates his 83rd birthday this year – and there’s not a grey hair or laughter line in sight.
米奇是一只戴著手套的老鼠，是迪士尼著名的卡通形象，而今年已經是米老鼠的83歲華誕了！但是，這是可愛的小老鼠沒有一根銀絲，也沒有一條皺紋，還是那只笑容滿面的小老鼠！

The creation of producer, director and animator Walt Disney, Mickey was based on an adopted pet mouse and originally named Mortimer. Disney’s wife Lillian decided that this was too ‘pompous’ a name, so Mortimer was renamed Mickey. With his identity established, Mickey could began his meteoric rise into the hearts and minds of young people (and adults) everywhere.
米老鼠是由動畫大師、制片人兼導演的華特-迪士尼創(chuàng)造出來的，其原型是迪士尼飼養(yǎng)過的一只小老鼠。米奇的原名叫做莫蒂默，但華特先生的太太莉蓮覺得這個名字太浮夸了，于是改名叫米奇，米奇的身份確立之后，就開始大展宏圖起來，到如今成為家喻戶曉、老少皆愛的大明星了。

The first Disney film to find a distributor and feature a soundtrack was Steamboat Willie, which introduced Mickey to the world on 18 November 1928 – now celebrated as his birthday.
在迪士尼拍攝的世界首部有聲動畫《威利汽船》中米奇正式登上熒屏，時間是1928年11月18日，從此之后這一天就成了米奇的生日了！

In 1978, celebrating his fiftieth birthday, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1978年，米奇50歲大壽時，他的名字被刻在了好萊塢星光大道上。

The release of a 2009 video game – Epic Mickey – re-imagined the mouse as a mischievous, heroic character, leaving his pleasant-manner and cheerful demeanour behind. An attempt to bring Mickey into the present day, to appeal to young peoples’ playful sensibilities, was a success. The Mickey Mouse brand is unshakeable and his longevity is testament to that.
2009年發(fā)行的米奇游戲把它重新塑造成頑皮淘氣又有英雄氣概的米老鼠，取代了從前彬彬有禮、熱情優(yōu)雅的形象。這樣的創(chuàng)新使得米奇可以與時俱進，吸引年輕人。這一轉變取得了成功。米老鼠這一品牌經歷了各種考驗之后，仍然歷久彌新、長盛不衰！