[by:可可英语～m.moreplr.com]
[00:00.34]'At the beginning, of course, you can't really pull apart religion and art can you? 
“在最开始的时候，你肯定不能真正地把宗教与艺术区分开来的，不是吗？
[00:04.40]Art is sacred because it is taking you to this space where you're not just doing the subject/object arm's-length approach to nature, 
艺术是神圣的，因为它将你带领到另一个空间，让你不仅仅是主体与客体方式对待大自然，并且保持着一臂之距的疏离感。
[00:12.10]it takes you to a new place and that's a religious activity. 
它同时带领你走进一个新领域，这便是一种宗教行为。
[00:15.49]It's only as time goes on that religion becomes much more involved with issues around power, 
只是在勿勿时光流逝中，宗教演变得越来越是涉及围绕权力之类的问题，
[00:21.22]and art becomes much more involved with issues around self-expression, 
而艺术越来越成为一种表达自我的方式；
[00:24.47]and these days, the two often look at each other from separate mountain peaks, peering in a puzzled kind of way through the mists.
到了今天，两者往往是分别高居于两座巍然屹立的高峰之上，透过迷雾用谜一般的眼光审视着对方。”
[00:30.19]'I don't think that primitive human beings just had a ready-made word in their heads that sounded like 'God', and they immediately knew what it was. 
“我不认为远古人类脑中能有现成‘神’这个字，并能立刻感知‘神’的含义。
[00:38.02]They were discovering how to be human in a world that was much more complicated because of their intelligence, 
随着他们自身智力发展，及他们自身正在对付的各种挑战，
[00:43.21]and because of the new environmental challenges they were working with, and slowly the world - how should I say it? - 
这世界变得越来越复杂，而他们还正在探索着如何成为这世界中的人类；慢慢地，这世界就，怎么说呢，
[00:51.32]almost reshapes itself. With that, and in your identification with the processes of the world, 
几乎重新塑造了自身。凭借这点，加上在你自身识别这世界的过程中，
[00:57.34]you begin to understand or intuit what in the 'Old Testament' is called 'wisdom', 
你开始理解了，或者直觉地感受到了那《旧约》中所称的‘智慧’，
[01:03.25]a kind of principle of cohesion or cohesiveness underlying it all, and you identify that eventually with the mind of God.'
一种最本质最基础的凝聚力或融合力，最终你能够定义了‘神’的含义。”
[01:10.07]It seems that much of the art made around the world at the time of the Ice Age did have a religious dimension, 
看来，冰河时代时世界各地的艺术品确实大部分都渲染上宗教的色彩，
[01:25.17]although we can only guess at any ritual use. This art is part of a tradition still very much alive today,
尽管我们只能猜测究竟是运用于什么仪式用途。这种艺术仍然是当代非常活跃的一种传统，
[01:32.36]and it's also part of an evolving religious consciousness which still shapes many human societies. 
同时也是一种不断塑造着人类社会、演化中的宗教意识。
[01:38.55]Objects like this sculpture of swimming reindeer take us into the minds and imaginations of people like us - 
像这种游水驯鹿雕塑像这样的物品，把我们带近那些具有与我们相同的思想与想象力的原始人类，
[01:45.51]into a world unseen but understood. And I think it's that ability to see beyond the functional and the physical - 
进入一个看不见但了解得到的世界。我想正是这种能超越功能与物质的见解能力，
[01:53.47]to use our imaginations - that ultimately makes us modern. 
最终使我们成为现代人。
[01:58.55]At the time our swimming reindeer were carved in Europe, the people of north-east Asia were about to settle the Americas. 
当欧洲的定居者雕刻出我们这件驯鹿雕塑时，东北区地区的人类即将要在美洲安家。
[02:12.01]That's for the next programme.
这将是下期节目的内容。