听美文故事记6级单词02-02
时间：2018-11-30 作者：英语课 分类：听美文故事记6级单词
2. Cleopatra,the Queen of Egypt
Shortly before the birth of Christ, Egypt was still ruled by a living goddess, Cleopatra, a Greek descended 1 from one of Alexander’s generals. She looked back to the Golden Age of Alexander’s world empire and was determined 2 to do even better herself.
Alexander died at the age of 32. By the time Cleopatra was 23, she had gone ever further than Alexander making her entrance into Rome as Queen of Egypt and consort 3 of Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the world.
These were complex times. To keep your throne, you had to be adaptable 4, ruthless, intelligent and a great politician. Cleopatra had all these traits which is why history has provided us with lots of interpretations 5 of Cleopatra. Renaissance 6 poets saw her as a heroine dying for love. And painters alluded 7 to her eroticism in their bare breasted portrayals 9 of the dying queen. Hollywood reinforced the image of Cleopatra as a vamp starting with Theda Bara’s seductive portrayal 8 in 1917.
But who was the real Cleopatra? What did she really look like?
We’re in Berlin because this is the best portrait of Cleopatra in the world. There are very few ancient sculptures that exist. So this is probably as close as we’re ever going to get to how she really looked. She’s rather plain looking, isn’t she? Look at her hair. It’s tied up in a simple bun. It’s a classical Greek hairstyle. It’s practical but not exactly designed to captivate a Roman general.
As a intellectual, Cleopatra would have been heartbroken: when during fighting between Egyptians and Caesar’s Roman troops, there occurred one of the greatest tragedies of the ancient world - the burning of the library of Alexandria. It’s sad to think about what was lost in the fire at Alexandria. There are the missing manuscripts of Aristotle and Plato. They were probably there. There was an entire room with editions of Homer. There may even have been early manuscripts of the Old Testament 10, which could probably help settle Biblical questions today.
Cleopatra was eventually able to replace 200,000 of the manuscripts. Books were very important to her. It’s ironic 11 that today everybody knows her for her beauty, but it was her intelligence that was most important asset she had.
- A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
- The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
- 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。
- They went in consort two or three together.他们三三两两结伴前往。
- The nurses are instructed not to consort with their patients.护士得到指示不得与病人交往。
- He is an adaptable man and will soon learn the new work.他是个适应性很强的人，很快就将学会这种工作。
- The soil is adaptable to the growth of peanuts.这土壤适宜于花生的生长。
- This passage is open to a variety of interpretations. 这篇文章可以有各种不同的解释。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The involved and abstruse passage makes several interpretations possible. 这段艰涩的文字可以作出好几种解释。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。
- The theme of the conference is renaissance Europe.大会的主题是文艺复兴时期的欧洲。
- In your remarks you alluded to a certain sinister design. 在你的谈话中，你提到了某个阴谋。
- She also alluded to her rival's past marital troubles. 她还影射了对手过去的婚姻问题。
- His novel is a vivid portrayal of life in a mining community.他的小说生动地描绘了矿区的生活。
- The portrayal of the characters in the novel is lifelike.该书中的人物写得有血有肉。
- And painters alluded to her eroticism in their bare breasted portrayals of the dying queen. 画家们把她描绘为裸胸垂死的贪欲的女王。 来自互联网