BBC百件藏品话沧桑第29件:沃伦杯(4)

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Looking at the scenes on the cup more closely, there's no doubt where these encounters are taking place.
两个场景发生的时代显而易见：

The musical instruments, the furniture, the clothes and the hairstyles of the lovers, all point to the past-and indeed to the Classical Greece of several centuries earlier.
乐器、家具、恋人的服装与头饰都是几世纪前希腊式的。

The style of their hair-cut, with a long lock of hair trailing down the neck, is typical of free-born Greek boys.
他们的头发中有一长缕垂到了背部，这是典型的希腊自由民男孩的发型。

Between 16 and 18, their hair would be cut and dedicated to the gods as part of their passage into manhood.
在16至18岁之间，作为成年礼的一部分，这缕头发会被剪下来献给神。

But we can also see another figure, who might have been part of the Roman banquet at which the cup was used.
我们在画面上能看到的另一个角色也出现在我们之前所假想的罗马宴会上。

He stands in the background, peeping at one of the scenes of love-making from behind a door-we only see half his face.
他正躲在门后窥探不堪入目的场面，只露出半张脸。

He is clearly a slave, although it is impossible to know whether he is simply indulging in a bit of voyeurism, or apprehensively responding to a call for room service.
他很明显是个奴隶，但我们不知道他是在享受偷窥的乐趣还是应少年的召唤来为他们服务。

Either way he's a reminder that what he and we are witnessing are acts to be conducted only in private behind closed doors. Here's Bettany Hughes again:
无论如何，他的出现提醒我们，我们眼前的场景只会发生在紧闭的房门之内。贝塔尼休斯评论道：

In Rome there's a kind of notion that you have good wives, and that you should somehow manage without resorting to male sex,
罗马人认为，如果你有个好妻子，就不该再与同性恋爱，

we know from the kind of back references to homosexual relations, that actually this was something that did happen throughout the Roman world.
以及对同性恋关系的反向引用上，都能看出同性恋是当时社会的常见情形。

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1.take place 发生；举行

The stock market is convinced more cross-border deals will take place.
股市相信跨境交易会越来越多5YCxP1CVpA[Gau6MU9。

Elections will now take place on November the twenty-fifth.
选举现定于11月25号举行I*KHvmE6v-R0.vM。

2.between and 在...之间

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2M)W_pNzz,E3SM。

What will be the effect of the alliance between IBM and Apple?
若IBM公司和苹果公司联手将会有什么效果呢？

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stock	[stɔk]	想一想再看 n. 存货，储备; 树干; 血统; 股份; 家畜
reminder	[ri'maində]	想一想再看 n. 提醒物，提示
banquet	['bæŋkwit]	想一想再看 n. 宴会 vi. 宴请 vt. 宴	联想记忆 X 单词banquet 联想记忆： ban禁止，que缺，t他。禁止缺他。因为这是宴会—为某位客人特设的筵席—所以不能缺席。
dedicated	['dedi.keitid]	想一想再看 adj. 专注的，献身的，专用的
typical	['tipikəl]	想一想再看 adj. 典型的，有代表性的，特有的，独特的
figure	['figə]	想一想再看 n. 图形，数字，形状; 人物，外形，体型 v	联想记忆 X 单词figure 联想记忆： fig做，制作+ure →做出的状态→形象，人物
convinced	[kən'vinst]	想一想再看 adj. 信服的
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