Pre-Renaissance
文艺复兴前的时期
They use it as in pejorative way or
这是个贬义词吗
See this is one of the things I wanna fix next time is that what happens
所以这是我想澄清的一件事
basically, you know, if there's one overriding thing we can say about Roman
一个很重要的瑞罗马文明的评论
civilization is what
是什么
It's a class of failure
是一种失败
If it wasn't, it'd still be here
如果不是的话,那它现在还应该存在
Alright
对吗
And so for Europe to develop, and our culture traditionally is based on
所以欧洲要发展,我们的文化传统也是建立在
European patterns
欧洲模式上的
For Europe to develop, Europe had to start over and be itself So whatever
欧洲要发展的话,必须从头开始并坚持自我
civilization does just like when the Romans defeated the Greeks
罗马打败希腊,这对文明有何意义
What'd they do
他们是怎么做的
They took what they like in Greek culture and they rest they left And so
他们对希腊文化批判性地吸收
what's gonna happen in 476, you know, with the final defeat of the Roman
所以在476年,罗马帝国最终失败
Empire, actually by the Romans call them Marminius, the Germans call them
罗马人称之为Marminius 德国人称之为
Herman the German Some of you who came from Central Missouri, Herman
赫尔曼德国,你们中的一些人是密苏里州中部来的
Missouri is named after Herman the German
赫尔曼密苏里州是命名于赫尔曼德国
We're gonna start this period where we're gonna talk about this more in detail
我们对这个时期会有更详细的讨论
They call the Dark Ages
人们称之为黑暗时代
And this is a label some quote enlightened historians in the late 1700s apply
这来源于18世纪末期的开明的历史学家
to this period because they have the view that history was some kind of
因为他们的观点是
straight line of development
历史是直线发展的
I don't know if any of you when you had IDS had to do a lifeline You know it'
我不知道你们中有没有人曾有过标识系统,需要生命线
kinda silly when you're 17 you know like you have a perspective of what's
在你17岁的时候,这感觉很傻,因为当时你感觉
important and not
自己知道什么重要什么不重要
But you know most of us do our do our lives go like that
但是我们的生活真的会像那样发生吗
You know, not trying to be mean or anything else but you know, when I got
我告诉你们这个故事并没有恶意
divorced from my daughter's mother, that was kind of the best and worst day in my life
当我和我前妻离婚的时候,那真的是我生活中最好的也是最坏的一天
No no, you know I mean up to that point because because there was a really
我的意思是起码到那时候为止
positive for me in a sense but there's also a real negative, and you know and
因为那样真的对我是解脱,但是也有不好之处
so the idea of everything just goes "Zing " If you're lucky, you will
就像是所有的事情都不受控制,如果你走运,就是走运
And so but history doesn't go like that either like that either, and so for Europe
但是历史却不是那样的
to become Europe, we had to start over
所以如果要让欧洲重归自我,我们必须重新来过
And your point is right
所以你的观点是对的