BBC百件藏品话沧桑第27件:中国汉族漆杯(3)

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Fine pieces like our cup required up to 30 or more separate coats, with long drying and hardening times between each, and so it could have taken up to about a month to make.
如本文中的耳杯这样的精品漆器需要涂抹三十多层漆。每抹完一次便需耐心等待它干燥变硬，因此制作周期需要一个月之久。

Hardly surprising, then, that they were inordinately expensive-you could buy more than ten bronze cups for the price of one in lacquer
毫不奇怪，它的价格十分昂贵，一只漆杯的价格相当于十只青铜杯，

so lacquer cups were strictly reserved for top management, the Imperial governors controlling the frontiers of the Empire.
因此仅限驻守边疆的将领等位高权重的人使用。

Although the Han Chinese and the Roman empires covered roughly the same land area, a census conducted in China,
汉朝的领土与罗马帝国大致相当，但人口更多。

only two years before our cup was made, came up with the wonderfully precise figure of a population of 57,671,400 individuals.
漆杯制作前两年的一次人口普查得到了五千七百六十七万一千四百人的精确数字。

One of things we need to keep in mind, of course, is that the Chinese Empire is immense, and that it straddles a hugely diverse geographic region.
我们必须了解，中国幅员辽阔，人口众多。

And in the case of the Han, we're talking about a distance that stretches from North Korea to Vietnam.
汉朝的领土从朝鲜一直延伸到越南。

Contact between people is obviously not always very obvious, and so the circulation of goods, the circulation of imperially sanctioned objects,
但民众间的交流并不频繁，因此商品的流通、皇室专用物品的流通

together of course with texts, is part of that symbolical assertion of what it means to be an empire.
以及统一的文字，便成为帝国统一性的象征。

You might not see people who are part of the same empire, but you might actually-by witnessing the goods that are produced across the empire-feel,
你也许无法同帝国其他部分的百姓碰面，

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1.require to 需要

Larger drawings tend to require two or three exposures to cover them.
较大的图画往往需要两三张胶片才能拍下来ZiP=4n3#X,HX。

True emotion ought not to require overstatement.
真实的感情不应当需要过分渲染eAhz%9t^oT。

2.belong to 属于

It is inappropriate for a judge to belong to a discriminatory club.
法官参加一个带歧视性的俱乐部是不合适的Tp7E0DU)Vp^ZN*J。

They belong to an older, more self-denying generation.
他们属于更加克己的上一代人&75]lE9Voh50G。

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