How Art Made The World 人、艺术、世界 -02
时间：2018-12-07 作者：英语课 分类：人、艺术、世界
What if we go back 2,000 years?
This is the image of a horse from classical antiquity 1. It was made to decorate a Roman household, about one hundred years before Christ. And clearly the artists here had no problems with two-dimensional representation.
We've gone back another thousand years to 1200 B.C. This tiny fragment comes from ancient Egypt, and the person who painted it knew perfectly 2 well how to represent something in the world around them. We're going to have to go back much much further.
This is northern Spain, a place called Altamira. We've come here because towards the end of the 19th century a discovery was made at Altamira that would radically 3 alter our understanding of when the world's first images were created. This historic discovery was made by a 9-year-old girl.
Her name was Maria. (Maria?)
She was the daughter of Marcelino de Sautuola, a local Spanish nobleman who was also an amateur archeologist. He became intrigued 4 by Altamira and in autumn 1879, Maria and her father paid the cave a visit.
This was a cave that was completely unknown until a few years before. Even though I was a mere 5 amateur, I was determined 6 to undertake my own investigations 7.
As a gentleman scholar, de Sautuola took a serious interest in finding out more about the prehistoric 8 past. But like other archeologists of the day, he assumed that the people who once settled or sheltered in these caves were little more than savages 9: uncouth 10, lowbrow, hardly better than apes and certainly incapable 11 of any kind of creative achievement.
I hoped that through these investigations we would manage to tear away the thick veil that separates us from the origins and customs of the ancient inhabitants of these mountains.
- The museum contains the remains of Chinese antiquity.博物馆藏有中国古代的遗物。
- There are many legends about the heroes of antiquity.有许多关于古代英雄的传说。
- 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。
- I think we may have to rethink our policies fairly radically. 我认为我们可能要对我们的政策进行根本的反思。
- The health service must be radically reformed. 公共医疗卫生服务必须进行彻底改革。
- You've really intrigued me—tell me more! 你说的真有意思—再给我讲一些吧！
- He was intrigued by her story. 他被她的故事迷住了。
- That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
- It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
- I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
- He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
- His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
- He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
- They have found prehistoric remains.他们发现了史前遗迹。
- It was rather like an exhibition of prehistoric electronic equipment.这儿倒像是在展览古老的电子设备。
- There're some savages living in the forest. 森林里居住着一些野人。
- That's an island inhabited by savages. 那是一个野蛮人居住的岛屿。