纪录片《文明》 第24期 创世纪的第二个瞬间（24）

This goes straight from

它直接将我们从公元前1450年

1450 BC to action movies.

带到了动作大片里

Look at those rippling¹ biceps.

看看那隆起的二头肌

Look at those muscles.

看看那些肌肉

Look at those tense bodies.

看看他们紧绷的身体

This cross of locked-together fighters.

打得难解难分的战士组成了十字

A spear that's about to try and impale² the body of his enemy

将要在千钧一发之际

before it's too late.

插入敌人身体的长矛

The sword that's about to plunge³ down.

即将刺下的剑

It's 3-D, folks. It's coming at you.

这可是三维效果 向你扑面而来

And, inevitably⁴, there is already a dead body,

无可避免 里面已有横尸一具

perfectly⁵ modelled, an arm bent⁶ back.

造型完美 一条手臂向后弯曲

Homer speaks of such bodies

荷马将这样的尸体描写为

with a hand or a face

一只手或一张脸

writhing⁷ in the dust.

在尘埃中痛苦地扭曲

But, people,

但是 各位

Homer is 700 years later.

荷马在七百年后才出生

700 years later, the time between Chaucer and us.

七百年 也就是乔叟和我们相隔的时间

Somebody out there with

拥有鹰一般敏锐目光的某个人

incredible hawklike⁸ eyesight is drawing on a body

描绘出那些战斗诗文里

of combat literature

呈现出的人体形象

that goes all the way down to those beautiful Homeric inventions.

多年后依然出现在荷马的华美作品里

1 rippling   

起涟漪的，潺潺流水般声音的

参考例句：

• I could see the dawn breeze rippling the shining water. 我能看见黎明的微风在波光粼粼的水面上吹出道道涟漪。
• The pool rippling was caused by the waving of the reeds. 池塘里的潺潺声是芦苇摇动时引起的。

2 impale   

v.用尖物刺某人、某物

参考例句：

• Do not push me,or I wil impale you on my horns!别推我，要不我会用我的角顶你。
• I poisoned him,but I did not impale him on a spear!我毒死了他，但是我没有把他插在长矛上！

3 plunge   

v.跳入，(使)投入，(使)陷入；猛冲

参考例句：

• Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
• That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。

4 inevitably   

adv.不可避免地；必然发生地

参考例句：

• In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去，毫无疑问是会散伙的。
• Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。

5 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

6 bent   

n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的

参考例句：

• He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
• We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。

7 writhing   

（因极度痛苦而）扭动或翻滚( writhe的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• She was writhing around on the floor in agony. 她痛得在地板上直打滚。
• He was writhing on the ground in agony. 他痛苦地在地上打滚。

8 hawklike   

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