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BBC英国史精讲《死神炼狱》第5期:习以为常的事物

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  • It's almost impossible to imagine the utter desolation and terror,
  • 几乎无法想象 当时的荒芜和恐怖
  • the complete collapse of everything you've taken for granted.
  • 你习以为常的事物 都彻底崩毁了
  • How do you find bread now the bakers are all dead?
  • 面包师都死光了 你到哪买面包
  • How do you find a physic now that none work?
  • 医生已无人出诊 你向何人求治
  • And, at last,how do you find someone to cart away the bodies that have to be disposed of... somewhere?
  • 最终 你上哪去找人搬运死尸呢 总得让他们入土为安吧
  • The bigger the city, the greater the shock.
  • 城市越大 遭受的打击就越严重
  • In 1348, London had a population of close to 100,000.
  • 1348年 伦敦有近十万人口
  • In the first wave of the plague,300 died every day.
  • 第一波瘟疫来袭 每天就有300人死亡
  • At Spitalfields, there had long been a medieval hospital with a cemetery attached.
  • 在斯毕塔菲尔德 有一所中世纪的医院 内有一座公墓
  • Within its walls, the dead were dutifully laid to rest in their individual graves, pointing east,
  • 在它的高墙内 每位死者都被虔诚地 头朝东安葬于他们的单人坟墓中
  • so that come the Day of Judgement,they would rise facing Jerusalem.
  • 以便在审判日到来时 他们能面朝耶路撒冷获得重生
  • But in the grip of the epidemic,there was no time for such pieties.
  • 但在疫情肆虐的关头 已经没有时间如此虔诚
  • Recent excavations have turned up mass pits where bodies were pitch-forked into the dirt in obvious haste and desperation.
  • 最近的挖掘工作发现了大规模坑洞 横七竖八的尸体 显然是绝望的人们匆匆掩埋的
  • Unearthed now just the way they were dumped in,they look as if they're protesting at the indignity.
  • 现在又被横七竖八挖掘出来 就像在抗议这种侮辱性的行为


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1、imagine

想象;设想

He could not imagine a more peaceful scene.

他想象不出比这更祥和的景象。

She couldn't imagine living in a place like that.

她无法想象住在那样一个地方。

猜测;猜想;认为

I imagine you're referring to Jean-Paul Sartre.

我猜你说的是让-保罗·萨特。

We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.

我们往往认为维多利亚时代的人们都一本正经,谨言慎行。

臆想;幻想

I realised that I must have imagined the whole thing.

我意识到大概整件事都是我臆想出来的。


2、turn up

(常指出其不意地或经长久等待后)出现,到来,露面

Richard had turned up on Christmas Eve with Tony.

理查德和托尼在圣诞夜一道露面了。

This is similar to waiting for a bus that never turns up.

这就跟等待一辆永远等不到的公共汽车差不多。

找出;发现;注意到;出现

Investigations have never turned up any evidence.

调查从没发现任何证据。

a very rare 15th-Century spoon, which turned up in an old house in Devon.

在德文郡一座老房子里发现的一把非常珍贵的 15 世纪的勺子

开大,调高(收音机、暖气等)

Bill would turn up the TV in the other room.

比尔会把另一个房间里的电视声音开大。

I turned the volume up.

我调高了音量。

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epidemic [.epi'demik]

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n. 传染病,流行病
adj. 流行的,传染性

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peaceful ['pi:sfəl]

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adj. 安宁的,和平的

 
population [.pɔpju'leiʃən]

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n. 人口 ,(全体)居民,人数

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haste [heist]

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n. 急速,急忙
v. 匆忙,赶快

 
medieval [medi'i:vəl]

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adj. 中世纪的

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disposed [di'spəuzd]

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adj. 愿意的,想干的,有 ... 倾向的 动词dis

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utter ['ʌtə]

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adj. 全然的,绝对,完全
v. 发出,作声

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cart [kɑ:t]

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n. 手推车,(二轮)载货车
v. (用手推车

 
scene [si:n]

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n. 场,景,情景

 
obvious ['ɔbviəs]

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adj. 明显的,显然的

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