英国史第1季第2集中英台词整理和单词统计
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| It was the hand of God that decided the outcome of battles, | 是上帝决定了战斗的胜负 |
| the fate of nations and the life or death of kings. | 国家的兴衰和国王的生死 |
| Everyone knew that. | 这一点妇孺皆知 |
| It was winter, the season of frost and death. | 那是一个冬天一个充满寒冷与死亡的季节 |
| A king lay dying. | 一位国王正值弥留 |
| His name was Edward the Confessor. | 他名叫"忏悔者爱德华" |
| He was dying childless | 国王生前无嗣 |
| and it was far from obvious who would succeed him. | 因而王位的继承变得晦暗不明 |
| Because there was no heir, | 由于没有继承人 |
| there were many who thought they should be the next king, | 觊觎王位者遍布四野 |
| including foreign princes | 这其中包括一些外国王子 |
| like Duke William of Normandy. | 比如诺曼底公爵威廉 |
| Among those gathered round the bed of the dying Saxon king | 在垂死的撒克逊国王榻前聚集的众人中 |
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| was the next most powerful man in England, | 蛰伏着下一任英格兰的掌权者 |
| Harold Godwineson | 哈罗德·戈德温森 |
| and he thought the crown would look well on his head. | 他认为自己是当之无愧的继承人 |
| He was hoping for some sign that King Edward felt the same way. | 并希望爱德华国王也表示出有同样的想法 |
| And then Edward stretched out his hand and touched Harold. | 后来爱德华伸手握住了哈罗德 |
| But was he giving him a blessing or a curse? | 这究竟是祝福还是诅咒呢 |
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| Was this the hand of God making Harold king? | 还是上帝要借老国王之手把王位传给哈罗德 |
| Nobody knew for sure, | 究竟何意无人知晓 |
| but Harold had no qualms. | 但哈罗德却无丝毫疑虑 |
| Harold seized the crown. | 抓住机会登上了王位 |
| The question now was for how long would he keep it? | 现在的问题是他能在这王位上坐多久 |
| Then, in the April sky, | 紧接着在四月的某一天 |
| the hand of God showed itself as a comet, | 一颗彗星传来了上帝的旨意 |
| a hairy star, and everyone knew this was no blessing | 这颗扫帚星让所有人意识到此非赐福 |
| but an evil omen. | 而是凶兆 |
| The year was 1066. | 时年1066 |
| Historians like a quiet life | 历史学家多爱平静的生活 |
| and usually they get it. | 也通常得偿所愿 |
| For the most part, history moves at a glacial pace, | 多数时候历史是在缓慢的进程中 |
| working its changes subtly. | 悄然变化着 |
| In Britain, especially, | 特别是在不列颠 |
| we like to think there's something about our history, | 我们倾向认为自己的历史向来不乏温和 |
| like our climate, our landscape, that's naturally moderate, | 比如我们的气候与地貌 |
| not much given to earthquakes and revolutions. | 没有频发的地震或剧烈的地壳运动 |
| But there are times and places when history, British history, | 但历史上不列颠的一些地方确有这种时期 |
| comes at you with a rush, violent, | 排山倒海般的剧变暴力 |
| decisive, bloody - a truckload of trouble | 果决血腥与种种 |
| knocking you down, wiping out everything that gives you your bearings in the world: | 打击与摧毁着给予人们文明举止的一切力量 |
| law, custom, loyalty and language. | 法律习俗忠诚以及语言 |
| And this is one of those places. | 这里便是其中之一 |
| I know it doesn't look like the site of a national trauma, | 我知道这里看上去并不像民族血拼之地 |
| does it? | 不是吗 |
| Especially these days, | 特别是如今 |
| it looks more suitable for a county fair than a mass slaughter. | 这里更适于乡村赶集而非大规模杀戮 |
| But this is the battlefield of Hastings, | 但这里是黑斯廷斯战役的战场 |
| and here one kind of England was annihilated | 英格兰的一个时代在此终结 |
| and another kind of England was set up in its place. | 转而开启了另一个时代 |
| Some historians will tell you that for most people of England | 有些史学家会告诉你对多数英格兰人来说 |
| Hastings didn't matter that much, | 黑斯廷斯之战并没有那么重要 |
| that 1066 was mostly a matter of | 1066年的改变不过是 |
| replacing Saxon lords with Norman knights. | 诺曼骑士取代了撒克逊王族 |
| Peasants still ploughed their fields and paid taxes to the king, | 农民们仍一如既往地耕地纳税 |
| prayed to avoid poverty and pestilence | 祈求远离贫困与瘟疫 |
| and watched the seasons roll round. | 年复一年经历着四季更迭 |
| But the everyday can rub shoulders with the genuinely catastrophic. | 却无一天不面临着灭顶的危险 |
| Yes, the grass grew green again, | 诚然野草会逢春再绿 |
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| but now there were bones beneath the buttercups | 但在毛茛之下却埋着皑皑白骨 |
| and an entire governing class of the English had been dispossessed, | 整个英格兰统治阶级退出了历史舞台 |
| their men, land and animals taken from them | 他们的臣民土地和牲畜都被夺走 |
| and given as spoils to the victorious foreigners. | 成为了获胜的外来侵略者的战利品 |
| You could survive and still be English | 你可能幸存下来依然是个英格兰人 |
| but now you belonged to an inferior race, the conquered. | 但却成为一个劣等民族被征服的民族 |
| You lived in England but it was no longer your country. | 你仍在此生活但英格兰却不再是你的国家 |
| Anglo-Saxon England was no stranger to invasions. | 对于侵略盎格鲁撒克逊英格兰并不陌生 |
| Viking raids had been part of life for a century, | 维京海盗的劫掠已融入其生活长达一个世纪 |
| but since the days of Alfred the Great, | 但自从阿尔弗雷德大帝时代之后 |
| it was a country stable enough to soak them up. | 对这足够稳定的国家而言这些已无关痛痒 |
| Longboats came and went | 维京战船时时来犯 |
| but still the king's law ran the shires. | 却未能动摇王令于全国的威信 |
| His churches and abbeys were built more beautifully than ever, | 国王的教堂和修道院建得比往日更加美丽 |
| and a town that would one day be called London | 一个日后被称为伦敦的小镇 |
| was beginning to grow and prosper on the banks of the Thames. | 也开始在泰晤士河畔兴盛繁荣起来 |
| Then one invasion succeeded where the others had failed, | 在不断入侵失败后终于迎来了一次成功 |
| and there was a Viking on the throne. | 一个维京海盗登上了王位 |
| His name was Canute, | 他名叫卡纽特 |
| 卡纽特大帝(995－1035) [英格兰丹麦挪威及部份瑞典的维京国王] | |
| the man we remember for trying to hold back the tides. | 在人们的印象中他是一个能力挽狂澜的人 |
| While he turned Anglo-Saxon England | 尽管他将盎格鲁撒克逊人的英格兰 |
| into part of his vast maritime empire, | 变成了他庞大海洋帝国的一部分 |
| he went out of his way to change nothing. | 但他并没有刻意去改变什么 |
| He even chose as his closest advisor | 他甚至选择了最具权势的 |
| one of the most powerful Anglo-Saxon nobles, | 盎格鲁撒克逊贵族之一 |
| Godwine, Earl of Wessex, | 韦塞克斯伯爵戈德温作为亲信谋臣 |
| a scheming, ruthless man. | 一个阴险残忍的人 |
| Godwine became virtual co-ruler with Canute | 戈德温实际上成为了卡纽特的副手 |
| over what was still recognisably Anglo-Saxon England. | 统治着依稀可见盎格鲁撒克逊风貌的英格兰 |
| But with Canute's death in 1035 began a chain of events | 1035年卡纽特的死引发了一系列事件 |
| that would culminate in the one invasion | 并最终以一次入侵而告终 |
| that Anglo-Saxon England would be unable to swallow. | 盎格鲁撒克逊英格兰是无法被吞并的 |
| And what a saga it was. | 多么气势磅礴的英雄史诗啊 |
| It started with a bloody and unsparing fight for Canute's throne | 一切始于精英阶级为争夺王位而展开的一场 |
| amongst the surviving elite. | 血腥而残酷的战争 |
| Treachery, murder and mutilation were par for the course. | 背叛谋杀和残害成为了常态 |
| The last man standing with any kind of claim to the throne | 而伫立到最后夺得王位的 |
| was a descendant of Alfred the Great, | 是阿尔弗雷德大帝的后裔 |
| a prince of the Saxon royal house. | 一位撒克逊王室家族的王子 |
| He was called Edward. | 他名叫爱德华 |
| He would become forever known as The Confessor. | 后以"忏悔者"而闻名于后世 |
| He was crowned on Easter Day, 1043. | 他在1043年的复活节加冕 |
| But he inherited more than just the crown. | 但他继承的不仅仅是这顶王冠 |
| He also got Earl Godwine, in no mood to lose power | 还有不想因新王上位 |
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| just because there was a new king. | 而失去弃权力的戈德温伯爵 |
| But unlike Canute, Edward had good reason | 但和卡纽特不一样爱德华有充分的理由 |
| to hate the right-hand man forced on him, | 憎恨这位得力却无法摆脱之人 |
| for Godwine had arranged his older brother's murder. | 因为戈德温策划谋杀了爱德华的哥哥 |
| But there was nothing he could do about his bloodstained rival, | 但他却不能惩治这位双手沾满血腥的政敌 |
| not yet anyway. | 至少现在不能 |
| King Edward knew that Godwine held the keys to the kingdom. | 爱德华国王知道戈德温手中握有实权 |
| When Godwine offered Edward his daughter in marriage, | 当戈德温提出把女儿嫁给爱德华时 |
| what could he do but take her? | 除了答应以外他还能怎么办呢 |
| Godwine was not Edward's only problem. | 戈德温并不是爱德华面对的唯一难题 |
| He also got to learn how to govern a country he knew little about, | 他还得学着治理一个对其知之甚少的国家 |
| for he'd grown up in exile in a very different world | 因为他成长于流放地一个截然不同的世界 |
| across the English Channel in Normandy. | 英吉利海峡对岸的诺曼底 |
| We tend to think of Edward the Confessor | 我们倾向于把忏悔者爱德华看作 |
| as the quintessential Anglo-Saxon king. | 一个典型的盎格鲁撒克逊国王 |
| In fact, | 事实上 |
| he was almost as Norman as William the Conqueror. | 他几乎与征服者威廉一样是个诺曼人 |
| After all, his mother Emma was a Norman | 他的母亲爱玛是诺曼人 |
| and he'd lived here in Normandy for 30 years, | 在撒克逊与丹麦战争的硝烟中 |
| ever since she'd brought him as a child refugee | 把他扮作难民童带出逃亡至诺曼底 |
| from the wars between the Saxons and the Danes. | 自那以后他便在此生活了三十年 |
| But Normandy was not just an asylum for Edward, | 但诺曼底不仅仅是爱德华的避难所 |
| it was the place which formed him politically and culturally. | 还培养了他在政治和文化方面的才能 |
| His mother tongue was Norman French. | 他的母语是诺曼法语 |
| His virtual godfathers were the formidable Dukes of Normandy. | 他真正的教父是那些令人敬畏的诺曼底公爵 |
| The Normans were descendants of Viking raiders, | 诺曼人是维京海盗的后裔 |
| but had long since traded in their longboats for powerful war-horses. | 但在很久以前就把战船换成了强大的战马 |
| The Duchy of Normandy was in no sense just a piece of France. | 诺曼底公国绝非仅为法国的一部分 |
| Though the Dukes did formal homage to the kings of France, | 尽管公爵在正式礼仪上效忠法国国王 |
| in every other way, they were fiercely independent, | 但在其它方面他们是完全独立的 |
| possessed of castles, patrons of churches. | 拥有自己的城堡与自己资助的教堂 |
| These warlords were constantly in the saddle | 这些军阀常年马不解鞍地四处征战 |
| imposing their will on vassals, | 将其意愿强加于诸侯 |
| fighting off revolts and forging shaky coalitions. | 平定叛乱缔结摇摇欲倾的盟约 |
| But the duchy was also humming with energetic piety. | 公国也忙于各种虔诚的宗教活动 |
| In the 11th century, | 在11世纪 |
| handsome stone monasteries and churches | 拥有罗马式拱形结构的 |
| with Romanesque arches | 漂亮的石砌修道院和教堂 |
| began to appear. | 开始出现 |
| And the first grandiose stone castles, | 最早的宏伟壮丽的石砌城堡 |
| as tough as the Norman lords who'd built them, | 如建造它们的诺曼王族一般坚毅 |
| became part of the landscape. | 成为了这风景一部分 |
| So until the throne of England tempted him back | 直到英格兰王位之争诱惑着三十六岁的他 |
| across the Channel at the age of 36, | 横跨英吉利海峡回归祖国 |
| this was Edward's home, | 这里就是爱德华的家 |
| and while he was here a child was growing up | 在此一个孩童长大成人 |
| who would change the course of British history. | 并将改写不列颠的历史 |
| It was at the site of this castle at Falles in 1027 | 1027年就是在法莱斯的这座城堡里 |
| that William, known to his contemporaries though not to his face | 威廉这个被时人私下称为 |
| as William the Bastard, was born. | "私生子威廉"的人出生了 |
| He was the illegitimate son of the Duke Robert of Normandy | 他是诺曼底公爵罗贝尔一世 |
| and the daughter of a tanner called Ellave. | 和一个名叫艾尔莱芙的鞋匠女儿的私生子 |
| And in the cut-throat world of feudal Normandy, | 在封建的诺曼底这个弱肉强食的世界里 |
| it was important that he learn, and quickly, how to survive. | 对他来说迅速学会如何生存比什么都重要 |
| He was only a child when his father died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, | 当他父亲死在朝圣的路上时他还只是个孩子 |
| leaving William, just eight years old, as his heir, | 年仅八岁的的威廉成为了爵位的继承人 |
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