纪录片《凡尔赛宫》 42你知道世界说英语的原因吗

Louis had had nothing to do with the grisly execution,

路易没有参与这个骇人听闻的处决

but accounts of it stained his reputation right across Europe.

但他有责任 这也毁了他在欧洲的声誉

It gives the reign¹ of Louis XV this incredibly ghastly,

这事儿对路易十五的统治带来了

sort of, backward, sort of, feeling to it.

惊人的反作用 人们对此颇有微词

Although his physical suffering was nothing

尽管肉体上的痛苦

compared to that meted² out to Damiens,

跟达米安比起来不值一提

Louis's mental stability was badly shaken by the affair.

该事件严重动摇了路易的精神安宁

His closest aides described him as troubled and depressed³.

他的亲信称他身心失调 非常消沉

For a monarch⁴ who takes being a king extremely seriously,

对极度尊崇王者之道的统治者来说

this is a big thing,

这是件大事

and all the court talk about, over the next couple of years,

接下来几年内 宫廷都在谈论

is this depression, this, sort of, melancholic⁵ vein⁶ to Louis XV.

路易十五那种消沉和忧郁的性情

To make matters worse,

更糟糕的是

the conflict with Britain was proving to be disastrous⁷.

与英国的冲突证实是灾难性的

By the end of what's called the Seven Years War,

七年战争快结束时

the French were driven out of Canada, India,

法国被赶出了加拿大 印度

and much of the Caribbean.

还有加勒比的大部分地区

The British, largely because of their Navy,

英国人主要因为其强大海军

were able, completely, to turn the tables on France.

能够彻底地将法国打败

France has really lost all her pretensions⁸

法国失去了所有成为

to becoming a global superpower,

世界霸主的自负

and she has lost that to England, basically.

基本上都被英国夺走了

If the world is speaking English today,

现在的世界都在说英语

it is partly because of the outcome of the Seven Years War

部分原因就是那场发生在18世纪的

in the 18th century.

七年战争的结果

1 reign   

n.统治时期，统治，支配，盛行；v.占优势

参考例句：

• The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
• The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。

2 meted   

v.（对某人）施以，给予（处罚等）( mete的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The severe punishment was meted out to the unruly hooligan. 对那个嚣张的流氓已给予严厉惩处。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The money was meted out only after it had been carefully counted. 钱只有仔细点过之后才分发。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

4 monarch   

n.帝王，君主，最高统治者

参考例句：

• The monarch's role is purely ceremonial.君主纯粹是个礼仪职位。
• I think myself happier now than the greatest monarch upon earth.我觉得这个时候比世界上什么帝王都快乐。

5 melancholic   

忧郁症患者

参考例句：

• A absurd tragedy accompany a melancholic song by the Tiger Lillies. 一出荒诞的悲剧，在泰戈莱利斯犹豫的歌声中缓缓上演。
• I have never heard her sing a melancholic song. 我从来没有听她唱过忧伤的曲子。

6 vein   

n.血管，静脉；叶脉，纹理；情绪；vt.使成脉络

参考例句：

• The girl is not in the vein for singing today.那女孩今天没有心情唱歌。
• The doctor injects glucose into the patient's vein.医生把葡萄糖注射入病人的静脉。

7 disastrous   

adj.灾难性的，造成灾害的；极坏的，很糟的

参考例句：

• The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.暴雨成灾。
• Her investment had disastrous consequences.She lost everything she owned.她的投资结果很惨，血本无归。

8 pretensions   

自称( pretension的名词复数 )； 自命不凡； 要求； 权力

参考例句：

• The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class. 这出戏讽刺了新中产阶级的装模作样。
• The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status. 这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。