BBC百件藏品话沧桑第28件:奥古斯都头像(2)

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It was once part of a full-length statue that showed him as a warrior, slightly larger than life-sized.
这尊比真人略大，充满了力量的头像将他塑造为一名勇士。

It's an image that in one form or another would have been familiar to hundreds of thousands of people, because statues like this were set up in cities all over the Roman Empire.
这副面容以不同的形式出现在罗马帝国的每一个城市里，为成千上万的公民所熟悉。

And although every inch a Roman, he wanted them to know that he was also the equal of Alexander and heir to the legacy of Greece.
虽然他是个地道的罗马人，却希望百姓知道他也是希腊文化的继承者，功绩堪与亚历山大大帝比肩。

When he had become master of the Mediterranean world and took the name Augustus, he really needed to find a new image.
在成为地中海地区的君主，接受了新衔之后，奥古斯都需要一个全新的形象。

And he really couldn't copy Caesar's image, because Caesar looked like a crusty old Roman.
他不能复制凯撒的头像，因为凯撒的肖像看起来就像个暴躁的罗马老头：

He had a real warts-and-all portrait-very thin and scraggy, and bald, and very austere, very much in the manner of traditional Roman portraiture.
骨瘦如柴兼又谢顶，采用了传统的罗马雕刻手法，完全未加美化，有损罗马君主的威名。

So that image had become a little bit discredited, and in any case Augustus-as he now was-was setting up an entirely new political system,
而现在奥古斯都正在建立一个全新的政治系统，

And having assumed this image when he was still in his thirties, he stayed with it until he died aged 76,
他使用了自己三十多岁时的样貌，直到七十多岁去世时仍未变更。

so there's no suggestion in his portraits, even any subtle suggestion such as we see in the portraits of our Queen, for example, of any aging process at all.
他的所有雕像都没有任何年龄的变化。

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1.break off 断绝；突然停止

We may break off relations with that country.
我们有可能和那个国家断绝关系.

You need a break. Why not take a fortnight off from work?
你需要休息, 为什么不休假两周呢?

2.want to 想去；想要

The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.
你是什么样的人和你想成为什么样的之间的差距就是，你做了什么UdTHtA[=.8%mBdck];N。

"I want to send a telegram." — "Fine, to whom?"

“我想发份电报V|dX%I0_]!%M-E0o-。”—“好的，发给谁？”

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setting	['setiŋ]	想一想再看 n. 安装，放置，周围，环境，(为诗等谱写的)乐曲
telegram	['teligræm]	想一想再看 n. 电报 vt. 向 ... 发电报	联想记忆 X 单词telegram 联想记忆： tele电+gram写，画→电报
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traditional	[trə'diʃənəl]	想一想再看 adj. 传统的
assumed	[ə'sju:md]	想一想再看 adj. 假装的；假定的
discredited		想一想再看 adj. 不足信的；不名誉的 v. 败坏（或破坏）…的名
subtle	['sʌtl]	想一想再看 adj. 微妙的，敏感的，精细的，狡诈的，不明显的
portraiture	['pɔ:tritʃə]	想一想再看 n. 肖像画，肖像绘制法
slightly	['slaitli]	想一想再看 adv. 些微地，苗条地