Each year, awards season begins with the Emmy Awards in November and culminates with the Academy Awards in February. (The Tonys are a summertime outlier.)

　　每年，颁奖典礼从11月的艾美奖开始，到2月的奥斯卡奖。(托尼奖是夏季的异常值。)

　　Rare talents can sometimes win all four of the major performing arts awards–an almost mythicachievement known colloquially as an EGOT: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.

　　罕见的天才有时能赢得四个主要表演艺术奖，这几乎是神话般的成就，它被称为EGOT：艾美奖、格莱美奖、奥斯卡奖和托尼奖。

　　There are relatively few EGOT recipients, but they include Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Legend.

　　获得EGOT的人相对较少，但其中包括了梅尔·布鲁克斯、奥黛丽·赫本、胡比·戈德堡和约翰·莱昂。

　　EGOTS aside, each award ceremony appeals to its own audience of devotees. Are you familiar with how your favorite award show got its name?

　　除了EGOTS，每个颁奖典礼都吸引自己的奉献者观众。您是否熟悉自己喜欢的颁奖晚会的名字?

　　The Oscars

　　奥斯卡奖

　　The Oscars are awarded each year by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), an invitation-only professional organization of film industry heavyweights. The Oscar is its casual nickname; the official name of the golden statuette is the Academy Award of Merit.

　　奥斯卡奖每年由电影艺术与重量级电影专业邀请美国电影艺术与科学学院(AMPAS)颁发。奥斯卡是它的休闲绰号;金色小雕像的正式名称是奥斯卡功绩奖。

　　They were first awarded in 1929, first broadcast on radio the following year in 1930, and first televised in 1953.

　　它们于1929年首次获得颁奖，于1930年在广播中首次播出，并于1953年首次进行电视转播。

　　The first award show ran a total of 15 minutes, which is a far cry from the hours-long endurance marathons they’ve become.

　　第一场颁奖晚会总共进行了15分钟，这与他们已经经历了长达数小时的耐力马拉松比赛相去甚远。

　　The statue that everyone hopes to take home was modeled after Mexican actor, film director, and screenwriter, Emilio “El Indio” Fernández, best known for directing Maria Candelaria.

　　每个人都希望带回家的雕像是模仿墨西哥演员，电影导演和编剧埃米利奥·“埃尔·印第奥·费尔南德斯”(Emilio“ El Indio”Fernández)制作的，该电影因导演玛丽亚·坎德拉里亚而闻名。

　　The statue’s nickname, Oscar, has conflicting origin stories, but the most popular narrative credits Margaret Herrick, Academy Award librarian and eventual Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

　　雕像的昵称奥斯卡(Oscar)的起源故事相互矛盾，但最受欢迎的叙述是玛格丽特·赫里克(Margaret Herrick)，奥斯卡金像奖得主，也是电影艺术与科学学院的最终导演。

　　Allegedly, Herrick claimed in 1931 that the statuette looked “like her Uncle Oscar.”

　　据称，赫里克(Herrick)在1931年声称小雕像“看起来像她的奥斯卡叔叔”。