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BBC百件藏品话沧桑 第35件:鸠摩罗笈多王一世金币(3)

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  • Only stable, rich and powerful states can commission great art and architecture,
  • 只有强盛稳定的国家能出现伟大的艺术与建筑,
  • which unlike text or language, can be instantly understood by anyone-very valuable in multi-lingual empires.
  • 它们比语言文字直观得多,只要一眼便可以了解,这在多语言的大帝国中是极大的优势。
  • But, whereas in Rome Christianity was soon imposed as the exclusive religion of the Empire,
  • 在罗马,基督教迅速成为唯一的国教,
  • for the Gupta kings worship of the Hindu gods was always only one of the ways in which the divine could be apprehended and embraced.
  • 但在印度,印度教对笈多王来说只是接近神祇的方式之一。
  • This is a world that seems to be at ease with complexity, happy to live with many truths, and indeed to proclaim them all as an official part of the state,
  • 看起来,这个世界能轻松地面对复杂状况,让不同的真理和谐共存,并宣布它们都得到国家承认。
  • and we can glimpse something of the richness of this Gupta religious landscape through two gold coins.
  • 我们通过两枚金币可以看到笈多王宗一些丰富的教景观。
  • I'm in the study room of our Coins and Medals Department, and in front of me I've got two coins of the Indian king Kumaragupta I, who ruled from AD 414 to 455.
  • 我正身处大英博物馆的钱币与勋章馆,我手里的就是这里藏有的2枚印度国王鸠摩罗笈多一世的金币,他于公元414年至455年在位。
  • And they're two coins that show very different aspects of this king's religious life.
  • 这两枚硬币表现了国王的宗教信仰中极为不同的几个方面。
  • They're each almost exactly the size of a one penny coin,
  • 大小与英国的一便士相当,
  • but they're made of solid gold and, like all small gold objects,they sit quite heavily in the hand.
  • 它们由黄金制成,拿在手里颇有分量。
  • On the first coin, where you'd normally expect to see the king, there's a horse-a magnificent standing stallion.
  • 在第一枚硬币上,别国通常用来雕刻国王头像的位置,
  • He's decorated with ribbons, and a great pennant flutters over his head, and around the coin, in Sanskrit, is the inscription that translates:
  • 刻着一匹神骏的牡马,身上装饰着彩带,头顶上飘着一面三角旗幡。金币边缘有一句梵语,
  • "King Kumaragupta, the supreme lord, who has conquered his enemies".
  • 意为鸠摩罗笈多一世,至尊王者,克敌制胜。


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adj. 神的,神圣的
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commission [kə'miʃən]

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vt. 正式宣布,公布,声明,赞扬,显示出

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supreme [sju:'pri:m]

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stable ['steibl]

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