Name: 穿越古羅馬 A Tour through Ancient Rome in 320 C.E.
Uploaded: 2013-07-23T12:59:21.000Z
Duration: 13 min 47 s

one of the most difficult things for me to understand is

其中一件讓我最難理解的事就是

how all of these ancient ruins fit together,

這些古代的遺址如何再組合在一起

但是幸運的是我們有伯納德·費舍爾博士

who has built an extraordinary video simulation

他建立了一個非同反響的影片模擬

that allows us to move through this space.

First of all, that ancient cities are now in ruins

首先 古代的城市現在已成了廢墟

第二 我們只有一些雜亂的廢墟遺址

So even if you can visualize what the Pantheon looks like

所以即使你可以想象出萬神殿的樣子

它們彼此在城中也相距一英裏之遙

What was everything else? Most of it is missing.

城中其他的一切呢？它們大部分都消失了

So the visualization is trying to put the whole city together

所以這個模擬影片就是試圖把整個城市組合起來

We're now flying low over the city, over the Tibre.

我們現在低飛在城市的上空 在台伯河上面

It's a good place to start because you know,

這是一個不錯的起點因爲你知道的

the Tibre does divide Rome into two parts.

台伯河確實把羅馬城分割成了兩個部分

And I see in the distance a very large temple.

我看見在遠處有一個非常大的神廟

That's the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.

which was the main temple of the Roman state cult.

它是當時羅馬官方祭祀崇拜的主要神廟

坐落於卡匹托爾山(古羅馬七丘之一）的山頂

which because of this temple and some others,

而這座山由於這座神廟和其他一些原因

was considered the center of the state cult

So what moment in Rome's history have you chosen?

那麽你選擇了羅馬的哪一段歷史時期呢？

certainly in terms of public architecture

所謂高峰期當然是指的公共建築而言

選擇這個歷史時期的原因很簡單

the Emperor at this time was Constantine the Great

就是這時候的羅馬皇帝是君士坦丁大帝

and after the Capitoline Hill we see the Palatine Hill,

在卡匹托爾山後面我們看見了帕拉蒂尼山

another one of the seven canonical hills of Rome.

And the Palatine is obvious to anybody who visits Rome.

帕拉蒂尼是任何一個羅馬遊客的必到之地

這是一座建有宮殿群的雄偉高山

In fact, the word palace derives from the word Palatine.

事實上 宮殿 palace 這個詞語就是從帕拉蒂尼 Palatinie衍化而來

The Romans, as time went on in their history,

said "where ever the emperor is, there the palace is,"

會說 “皇帝在哪裏 宮殿就在哪裏”

or the paletine. So, the term palace got detached

或者 帕拉蒂尼山（就在哪裏） 所以 宮殿這個詞就從

and came to just mean "a place where the ruler lives".

而逐漸形成 “皇帝居住的地方”之意

I see the imperial palace, it is so large.

我看到了這座皇城 她是如此之大

It is literally enveloped the entire hillside.

where the emperor lived, and his family with him,

but it was also the center of the government.

between this enormous circus and the palace?

and the Emperor was a great giver of the circus games

皇帝實際是競技場活動的很大施予者

and could easily come down to the Imperial box

走到（競技場中）這個皇家包廂裏來

he could watch the circus races at the Palace.

他在皇宮中就可以觀賞競技場比賽

So we're not talking about Barnum & Bailey,

所以我們不是在說“巴納姆及貝利馬戲團”的表演

We're mainly talking about chariot races.

Think Ben Hur, the very famous chariot race scenes.

想想《賓虛》這部電影 那裏有非常著名的戰車比賽的鏡頭

there were parades, religious processions,

So let's go into the city proper. We know that

Rome was this mercantile culture that has real markets.

羅馬的商業文化中有真正意義上的集市

We know about their hundreds of trades and professions,

我們了解他們上百種的交易種類和職業

We know about their diet, we know about their longevity.

我們也知道他們的飲食 知道他們的一般壽命

The scholars have really reconstructed in great detail

其中一個最最令我印象深刻的組成部分

that I'm seeing is this aqueduct, this highway for water.

Yeah, the Romans are famous for their aqueducts.

They kept this gravitational sytem working

by getting the sources up into the mountains,

and the valley which gave the force to the water.

也帶到山谷中 （這種落差）形成了對水的推力

而且他們還能以某種方法計算出

a slope of even just 1 foot every 2000 feet,

每兩千英尺裏僅僅一英尺的斜坡

We don't know how they could measure so accurately

我們不知道他們如何能夠如此精確地計算