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骑士与少女(视频+MP3+中英字幕) 第34期:欧洲史(13)

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It's actually better than that

其实呢,事实比这个更好

It's name after Woden's wife, Freyja

周五是以奥丁的妻子命名的 Freyja

And the wife of the main God is usually what?

主神的妻子一般是什么

Goddess of?

一般是代表什么的女神

Love

Love, fertility, whatever so

爱,丰收,类似的

Friday is really love day

周五确实是爱之日

Which probably better in being free at least in most cases

在大多数情况下这是比自由更美好的事情

What did the Romans do?

罗马人做了什么

Why is there wall in China?

为什么中国有长城

The wall of China was built about 200 B C

中国的长城建于公元前200年

Keep the idiots out

目的是阻止蛮夷入侵

Right?

对不对

Keep the peoples you don't like out

把那些你不喜欢的人阻挡在外面

Unlike the wall that was in Berlin

这不像柏林墙

which the purpose of the wall between the two Germanies

柏林墙分开了两个德国

was to keep people in East Germany or keep the people in the East block

是为了让人们待在东德或者说把人们关在东德

The purpose of the wall in China was to keep people out

中国的城墙则是用来抵御外敌

The Romans did the same thing

罗马人做了类似的事情

The Romans come up to a certain point and said

罗马人扩张到一定的地方之后就说

"too many barbarians are over there we're not going any further "

"太多野蛮人在这里,我们不再前进了"

So when they come up in to Central Europe

所以他们只扩张到了中欧

there's an earthen wall through kind of central Germany

他们在德国中部建立了一道土墙

called the Teutoburgbalt, through the particular forest

他们叫他Teutoburgbalt 这堵墙穿过了某片森林

And so you get places like Trio for example, The Mosel Valley

于是就有了一些地方比如Trio,摩泽尔河谷

which was settled by the Romans

这些地方都是罗马人建立的

And it's very weird to be far north and see Roman ruins

到很远的北部去看见罗马人烧杀抢掠是很奇怪的

Same thing that they did in England,

就像他们在英格兰做的一样

they get up, to bout the Middle of England

他们大概进军到了英格兰中部

and who out there the Scotts and these other crazy people

北边都是苏格兰人和其他疯狂的族群

so they built another earthen wall

于是他们建造了另外一座土墙,他们叫他Hadrian墙

And the idea was you people stay over there, and we'll stay over here

这样做的意思是在表明你们的人民呆在墙那边,而我们会呆在这边

I think we might have mentioned last time

我觉得我们上次可能已经提过这个

what happened is though as the centuries go on

那就是随着世纪的轮回

there aren't enough people for the Roman legions and so slowly the difference between the Barbarians

罗马军队的数目不够了,但是与外邦之间的不同却慢慢地改变了

some of the Barbarians and the Romans change

有些外邦人和罗马人改变了观念

Because we get this influx of people into the Roman Legions

因为不停有外邦人进入罗马帝国的军队

So by the time the fall of Rome basically the Romans

所以渐渐的关于罗马帝国的衰落这件事,其实基本上罗马人

have been training the people who will lead to their demise

一直在训练那些导致他们灭亡的人

about 50% of the legions of Rome out of these primary areas were made up of Barbarians Were made out of indigenous people

这些最初的地方大约有一半的罗马军队是由外邦人构成的,是由当地的居民构成的

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indigenous [in'didʒinəs]

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adj. 本地的,土生土长的,天生的

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influx ['inflʌks]

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n. 流入,河口,辐辏 涌进; 汇集[C][S1] an

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fertility [fə:'tiliti]

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n. 肥沃,丰饶,生产力

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trio ['tri:əu]

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n. 三个一组,三重唱(奏)

 
settled ['setld]

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adj. 固定的;稳定的 v. 解决;定居(settle

 
particular [pə'tikjulə]

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adj. 特殊的,特别的,特定的,挑剔的
n.

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primary ['praiməri]

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adj. 主要的,初期的,根本的,初等教育的

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block [blɔk]

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n. 街区,木块,石块
n. 阻塞(物), 障

 
demise [di'maiz]

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n. 死亡,转让房产,让位 vt. 让渡,遗赠,转让 v

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certain ['sə:tn]

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adj. 确定的,必然的,特定的
pron.

 

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