纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 069瓦斯特克女神雕像（11）

 

This programme has turned out to be more about what we don't know than what we do. Our statue's commanding physical presence speaks to us with peremptory¹ directness, but of all the objects in our history, she is perhaps the hardest to read confidently through the filters of the historical record. In the next programme, we'll also be trying to reconstruct a lost spiritual world, but there's a lot more evidence to go on. We'll be in one of the last places on earth to be settled by human beings - Easter Island, Rapa Nui... and with some of the most instantly recognisable sculpture in the world.

关于这件文物，我们所不知道的远远多于我们所知道的。雕像的实体以绝对的直接方式向我们诉说着它的故事。但在所有的文物当中，它应该算是最难过滤历史记载从而获得确定信息的一件了。在下一节中，我仍将通过文物重构一个失落的精神世界，不过更多证据尚待发掘。它与地球上最晚有人类定居的土地之一一复活节岛—一有关，是世界上最广为人知的雕像。

1 peremptory   

adj.紧急的，专横的，断然的

参考例句：

• The officer issued peremptory commands.军官发出了不容许辩驳的命令。
• There was a peremptory note in his voice.他说话的声音里有一种不容置辩的口气。