歌曲 | Beginnings英国起源(10) |
歌手 | 英语听力 |
专辑 | BBC英国史 |
[00:00.660] | Will probably not. Sooner or later they would have noticed that the top of the head is sliced off, scooped out. |
[00:07.567] | Like a boiled egg of breakfast, to hold sacrificial offerings. |
[00:12.034] | And then they would have remembered stories of Rome told about the grisly brutality of the Druids. |
[00:19.148] | Perhaps they would have even taken note of the stories told by the northern savages themselves. |
[00:25.164] | Of decapitated heads who were said to speak mournfully to those who had parted them from the rest of their body |
[00:32.904] | Warning of vengeance to come. |
[00:35.748] | And then they would have thought, "Well, perhaps not." |
[00:39.317] | "Perhaps we don't want to have much to do with an island of talking heads." " |
[00:53.521] | So why did the Romans come here |
[00:55.700] | to the edge of the world, and run the gauntlet of all these ominous totems? |
[01:02.354] | Well, it was the lure of treasure, of course, all those pearls that Tacitus was convinced lay around Britain in heaps. |
[01:09.338] | But even more seductive was what Roman generals craved the most |
[01:14.038] | the prestige given to those who pacified the barbarian frontier. |
[01:20.504] | And so, in the written annals of Western history |
[01:23.437] | the islands now had not only a name, Britannia, but a date. |
[01:28.858] | In 55 BC Julius Caesar launched his galleys across the Channel. |
[01:39.499] | Julius Caesar must have supposed that all he had to do was land his legions in force and the Britons. |
[01:47.473] | Just cowed by the spectacle all of the glittering helmets and eagle standards. |
[01:51.903] | Would simply queue up to surrender. |
[01:55.007] | They would understand that history always fought on the side of Rome. Trouble was, geography didn't. |
[00:00.660] | dà gài bú huì, yīn wèi tā men zhōng huì zhù yì dào, diāo xiàng de tóu dǐng chù bèi qiē kāi wā diào le. |
[00:07.567] | rú tóng yī kē zhǔ dàn, zhuān wèi fàng zhì jì sì pǐn ér shè. |
[00:12.034] | ér suí hòu, tā men yě xǔ huì yì qǐ luó mǎ rén kǒu zhōng de dé lǔ yī jiào shì hé děng bào nüè cán rěn. |
[00:19.148] | huò xǔ tā men shèn zhì huì zhù yì dào, běi fāng mán zú qīn kǒu jiǎng shù de gù shì. |
[00:25.164] | bèi kǎn xià de tóu lú bēi qī dì xiàng ràng tā men shēn shǒu yì chù de guì zǐ shǒu āi háo zhe |
[00:32.904] | jǐng shì zhe fù chóu jí jiāng dào lái. |
[00:35.748] | ér hòu tā men dà gài huì xiǎng " yīng gāi bù suàn yì shù pǐn". |
[00:39.317] | wǒ men kě bù xiǎng yǔ biàn bù zhe huì shuō huà tóu lú de dǎo yǒu rèn hé guā gé". |
[00:53.521] | nà me, jiū jìng shì shén me qū shǐ luó mǎ rén yǐ shēn fàn xiǎn |
[00:55.700] | lái dào zhè mǎn bù bù xiáng tú téng de shì jiè zhī duān dì ne? |
[01:02.354] | dāng rán shào bù liǎo duì bǎo zàng de kě wàng. tǎ xī tuó suǒ jiān xìn de nà yíng qiān lěi wàn de cái fù. |
[01:09.338] | dàn gèng jù mèi lì tóng shí luó mǎ jiāng jūn |
[01:14.038] | zuì kě wàng de shì píng dìng mán yí kāi jiāng kuò tǔ dài lái de wú xiàn róng yào. |
[01:20.504] | yīn cǐ, zài xī fāng biān nián shǐ zhōng |
[01:23.437] | bù liè diān ní yà yǐ bù jǐn shì dǎo yǔ de míng zì, hái biāo kè zhe yí gè nián dài. |
[01:28.858] | gōng yuán qián 55 nián, kǎi sǎ dà dì dài bīng héng chuān yīng jí lì hǎi xiá. |
[01:39.499] | kǎi sǎ dà dì dìng shì rèn wéi tā zhǐ xū dài lǐng dà pī luó mǎ jūn tuán dēng lù. |
[01:47.473] | yào yǎn de kǎi jiǎ yǔ wēi wǔ de yīng qí, zì huì ràng bù liè diān rén wén fēng sàng dǎn. |
[01:51.903] | bù fèi chuī huī zhī lì biàn néng ràng tā men liè duì tóu xiáng. |
[01:55.007] | luó mǎ rén zì zhī zì jǐ zhàn jǐn tiān shí, què wèi liào dào tā men háo wú dì lì zhī biàn. |