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当赖斯莉·黑索顿在写穆罕穆德的传记时，她惊讶地发现：根据早期记录，穆罕穆德接受《古兰经》启示的那个夜晚，他的第一反应是疑惑、敬畏，甚至恐惧，然而这次经历却成为他信仰的基石。黑索顿呼唤对怀疑和质疑的新认识，并将其作为信仰的基础，以此结束所有形式的原教旨主义。
n. 探险，踏勘，探测
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- Writing biography is a strange thing to do.
- 撰写传记是一件不可思议的事情
- It's a journey into the foreign territory of somebody else's life,
- 记下别人的一生就如异国旅程一样
- a journey, an exploration that can take you places you never dreamed of going
- 这段旅程让你探索那些从未想过的地方
- and still can't quite believe you've been, especially if, like me, you're an agnostic Jew
- 即使曾去过那里，你自己都不敢相信，尤其当你像我一样，是一位不可知论者、一位犹太人
- and the life you've been exploring is that of Muhammad.
- 而你所探索的旅程就是“穆罕默德”的生平
- Five years ago, for instance,
- 举例来说，五年前
- I found myself waking each morning in misty Seattle to what I knew was an impossible question:
- 当每天在晨雾弥漫的西雅图醒来时，我常想到一个很困难的问题
- What actually happened one desert night, half the world and almost half of history away?
- 隔着半个地球，半页历史，在沙漠中某个夜晚到底发生了什么事？
- What happened, that is, on the night in the year 610
- 公元610年的某个夜晚，
- when Muhammad received the first revelation of the Koran on a mountain just outside Mecca?
- 当穆罕默德在麦加郊外一处山上第一次领受古兰经启示时，到底发生了什么事？
- This is the core mystical moment of Islam, and as such, of course, it defies empirical analysis.
- 这是伊斯兰教最关键的神秘时刻，那当然啦，是无法对其进行实例分析的
- Yet the question wouldn't let go of me.
- 然而这问题挥之不去
- I was fully aware that for someone as secular as I am, just asking it could be seen as pure chutzpah.
- 我完全了解像我这样的非宗教人士，问这样的问题真是放肆无礼
- And I plead guilty as charged, because all exploration, physical or intellectual,
- 我承认这一点，因为肉体上或精神上的任何探索
- is inevitably in some sense an act of transgression, of crossing boundaries.
- 都无法避免地有亵渎且冒犯之意
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| exploration | [.eksplɔ:'reiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| revelation | [rɛvl'eiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| agnostic | [æg'nɔstik] | 联想记忆 | ||
| core | [kɔ:] | |||
| plead | [pli:d] | 联想记忆 | ||
| analysis | [ə'næləsis] | 联想记忆 | ||
| intellectual | [.intil'ektʃuəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| transgression | [træns'ɡreʃən, trænz-, trɑ:n-] | 联想记忆 | ||
| secular | ['sekjulə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| guilty | ['gilti] |
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