Beginnings英国起源(5)

歌曲 Beginnings英国起源(5)
歌手 英语听力
专辑 BBC英国史

歌词

[00:00.693] So Skara Brae was not just an isolated settlement of fishers and farmers.
[00:06.000] Its people must have belonged to some larger society.
[00:09.363] One sophisticated enough to mobilise the army of toilers and craftsmen needed.
[00:15.069] Not just to make these monuments, but to stand them on end.
[00:20.052] And they were just as concerned about housing for dead as the living.
[00:26.291] The mausoleum at Maes Howe, a couple of miles from Skara Brae, seems no more than a swelling on the grassy landscape.
[00:34.356] But this is, as it were, a British pyramid and in keeping with our taste for understatement.
[00:41.041] It reserves all its impact for the interior.
[00:47.551] Imagine them open once more.
[00:49.598] A detail from a village given the job of pulling back the stone seals, lugging the body through the low opening in the earth.
[00:58.051] Up 36 feet of narrow, tight-fitting passageway, lit only once a year by the rays of the winter solstice.
[01:07.631] A death canal, constriction, smelling of the underworld.
[01:28.131] Finally the passageway opens up to this stupendous, high-vaulted masonry chamber.
[01:35.443] Some of these tombs would have been elaborately decorated with carvings in the form of circles or spirals, like waves or the breeze-pushed clouds.
[01:45.090] Others would have had neat little stone stores or cubicles where the bodies would be laid out on shelves.

歌词大意

[00:00.693] kàn lái sī kǎ lā bù léi bìng bù zhǐ shì yú fū hé nóng mín yǔ shì gé jué de shì wài táo yuán.
[00:06.000] zhèi xiē rén yí dìng cóng shǔ yú chéng shú qiáng dà de shè qún.
[00:09.363] rén yuán zǔ chéng fù zá dào zú yǐ dòng yuán qǐ láo gōng yǔ gōng jiàng suǒ zǔ chéng de dà jūn.
[00:15.069] bù jǐn néng jiàn zào qǐ zhèi xiē páng rán dà wù, hái jiāng qí lì zhì qǐ lái.
[00:20.052] ér tā men duì dì gōng de guān zhù, jué bù xùn yú shēng qián de yù suǒ.
[00:26.291] zài sī kǎ lā bù léi shù yīng lǐ wài de mài háo shí shì, kàn shang qu bù guò shì qīng cǎo jiān yī chù lóng qǐ dì kuài.
[00:34.356] qí shí tā kān chēng bù liè diān zhī jīn zì tǎ, qí hán xù yǔ wǒ men de shěn měi qíng qù bù móu ér hé.
[00:41.041] jiāng suǒ yǒu huá měi jǐn cáng yú shì nèi.
[00:47.551] shì xiǎng jiāng zhè mù xué zài cì dǎ kāi.
[00:49.598] yí gè cūn mín shòu gù, jìn rù jiāng shí mén fēng sǐ, pú fú chuān jìn zhè tiáo shēn rù de dì dòng.
[00:58.051] yī tiáo cháng dá sān shí liù yīng chǐ xiá zhǎi, bìng zhǐ yǒu zài měi nián dōng zhì cái huì mù yù rì guāng de tōng dào.
[01:07.631] yī tiáo jǐn, zhǎi bìng mí màn zhe yīn sēn qì xī de míng jiè zhī lù.
[01:28.131] zuì zhōng, zhè tiáo tōng dào jiāng wǒ men yǐn xiàng le zhè jù dà de qióng lóng xíng shí shì.
[01:35.443] yī xiē zhuāng shì huá měi dí líng mù, bèi diāo kè shàng yuán quān huò shì luó xuán de xíng zhuàng, yóu rú bō làng, yòu rú qīng fēng lüè guò de yún hǎi yì bān.
[01:45.090] lìng yī xiē zé fù yǒu jīng qiǎo de xiǎo xíng shí shì, biàn yú sǐ zhě de yí tǐ cún fàng yú gē jià zhī shàng.