BBC百件藏品话沧桑第4件:一对游泳的驯鹿(1)

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What does the past sound like? Of course, when we're as far back in deep time as we are this week, we can have no real idea.
过去的世界聆听起来如何？当然，即使我们像本周一样，努力追溯回宇宙洪荒的远古时代，我们仍旧没能得到任何确切的答案。

We can imagine the unchanging sounds of nature - wind, rain, sea, river - but for us, history is silent.
我们可以想象大自然里永恒不变的声音——风声雨声，或苍海河流的涛声依旧。

'You can feel that here's somebody making this, who was projecting themselves with huge imaginative generosity into the world around,
“你可能感受到制作这艺术品的人运用巨大的想象力去感知自己周遭的世界，审视那节奏，

It is, I think, a masterpiece of Ice Age art, and it's also evidence of a huge change in the way in which the human brain was working.
我认为这是一件冰河时代的艺术杰作，同时它也是人类运转方式产生巨大变化的鲜明证据。

'Something, between say 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, happens in the human brain,
“大约在五至十万年前之间，人类大脑产生了变化，

that allows this fantastic creativity, imagination, artistic abilities, to emerge.'
允许了这梦幻般的创造力、想象力，审美能力的涌现。”

The swimming reindeer made from mammoth tusk, carved around 10,000 B.C. , and found in France
猛犸象象牙雕“一对游水的驯鹿”，大约在公元前10,000 年完成，出土于法国。

In the last two programmes, we looked at stone tools, which raised the question of whether it's making 'things' that makes us human.
在上次两期节目中，我们介绍了石制工具，并因些提出这个问题：是否制造“物品”使我们人类之所以成为人类呢？

I don't think I can. But there's another question that follows quite quickly once you start looking at these very ancient things.
我不能想象。然而当你再次审视这些非常古老的物品时，却引发了另一个问题。

Our modern human species, 'homo sapiens' ('thinking man' in the Latin), evolved in Africa at least 150,000 years ago.
我们的现在人种“智人”（拉丁语中意为“有思想的人”）是至少约十五万年前，在非洲进化而来的。

But around 50,000 years ago, something dramatic seems to have happened to the human brain,
然后大概就在约五万年前，人类大脑似乎发生在某些戏剧性的变化；

because across the world, humans start to make patterns that decorate and intrigue, to make jewellery to adorn the body,
因为当时全世界各地的人类纷纷不约而同，开始使用形形色色的装饰性与或满足好奇心的图案，使用珠宝首饰来装饰身体，and

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1. of course

一定，当然

eg. Of course it's absolutely impossible.

当然那是万万不可能的。

eg. Of course you have.

理所当然你会有。

2. have no idea

不知道；不清楚

eg. If you ask me when, I have no idea.

要问我要到何时的话，我当然也是不知道的啦。

eg. However, I have no idea where to go.

但是，我拿不定主意去哪儿。

3. in doing so

这样做时，在这情况下

eg. In doing so, you turn the bitterness in satisfaction!

在你这样做时，你就把坏事变成了乐事。

eg. In doing so, businesses will be able to concentrate on what they know how do best: their business.

这样，事情将能够集中在他们知道如何做得最好的事情上：他们的业务。

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impossible	[im'pɔsəbl]	想一想再看 adj. 不可能的，做不到的 adj.	联想记忆 X 单词impossible 联想记忆： im不，无，非+plssible可能的→不可能的
evidence	['evidəns]	想一想再看 n. 根据，证据 v. 证实，证明	联想记忆 X 单词evidence 联想记忆： e出+vid看+ence→[明显的证据]证据，证人
astonishing	[əs'tɔniʃiŋ]	想一想再看 adj. 惊人的动词astonish的现在分词
unchanging		想一想再看 adj. 不变的
satisfaction	[.sætis'fækʃən]	想一想再看 n. 赔偿，满意，妥善处理，乐事，确信	联想记忆 X 单词satisfaction 联想记忆： satisfy满足+faction表名词，“达到的状态”，由-fy转化而来→满足
species	['spi:ʃiz]	想一想再看 n. （单复同）物种，种类
fantastic	[fæn'tæstik]	想一想再看 adj. 极好的，难以置信的，奇异的，幻想的
artistic	[ɑ:'tistik]	想一想再看 adj. 艺术的	联想记忆 X 单词artistic 联想记忆： art艺术+istic表形容词，由-ist+ic构成，表示“…的”→艺术的
masterpiece	['mɑ:stəpi:s]	想一想再看 n. 杰作
tusk	[tʌsk]	想一想再看 n. 牙，暴牙，牙状物 vt. 以牙刺戳，以牙