纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 060基尔瓦陶器碎片（9）

 

"Well I have tried to write about this, and that sense of being in the world - partly, for example, in the kind of stories that were common to many of these cultures. Whereas you'd imagine that these were your stories, they turn out to be actually stories that belong to all sorts of other people as well. You felt as much that you belonged to Istanbul as you did to Dar es Salaam¹. That sort of sense of being in the world, that's really what I mean."

Like all seas, the Indian Ocean unites far more than it separates the people living round its rim². In the next programme, we'll be with another sea - the Atlantic. We'll be in the Hebrides, with a board game invented in India, played in Persia, taken to medieval Europe, and played there with pieces made of the ivory of Atlantic whales and Arctic walrus³ ... we'll be with the Lewis Chessmen.

对隔海而居的人们来说，海洋通常会让大家更为团结，而不是彼此疏远。和地中海一样，印度洋也创造出了一个巨大而紧密相连的世界，本地历史常常包罗融汇了各洲历史。

1 salaam   

n.额手之礼，问安，敬礼；v.行额手礼

参考例句：

• And the people were so very friendly:full of huge beaming smiles,calling out "hello" and "salaam".这里的人民都很友好，灿然微笑着和我打招呼，说“哈罗”和“萨拉姆”。
• Salaam is a Muslim form of salutation.额手礼是穆斯林的问候方式。

2 rim   

n.(圆物的)边，轮缘；边界

参考例句：

• The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
• She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。

3 walrus   

n.海象

参考例句：

• He is the queer old duck with the knee-length gaiters and walrus mustache.他穿着高及膝盖的皮护腿，留着海象般的八字胡，真是个古怪的老家伙。
• He seemed hardly to notice the big walrus.他几乎没有注意到那只大海象。