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"Taking the bull by the horns" ...it's a terrifying metaphor.
這尊雕像用具象表現(xiàn)了我們的一句俗語“抓牛先抓角”，
It's how politicians are meant to tackle crises.
這是政治家門解決危機的方式，
It's what we're all meant to do with the big moral problems of life.
這是我們面對人生的重大問題時應(yīng)有的一種態(tài)度，
Though most of us, I suspect, hope to avoid doing anything of the sort.
雖然對我們大多數(shù)人而言，希望如何避免危機才是重中之重。
But about four thousand years ago, we have serious archaeological evidence of a whole civilisation that seems to have been collectively fascinated by the idea of confronting the bull.
但考古研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，在四千年前，某一文明中的所有人似乎都渴盼能挑戰(zhàn)公牛。
I have seen many paintings of people leaping or cutting the bulls.
我見過很多畫作中的跳躍者及公牛。
There always has been a kind of game between men and bulls...always.
男人和公牛之間總是有一種游戲。
It's one of the many mysteries of a society at the crossroads of Africa, Asia and Europe, that played a key role in shaping what we now call the Middle East.
這個社會處于亞非歐的交界，是形成如今中東地區(qū)的關(guān)鍵力量。
A history of the world.
世界歷史，
In a hundred objects.
百件藏品，
Minoan Bull and acrobat,a small Bronze statue around 3,500 years old,discovered in Crete.
具有3500年歷史的米諾斯公牛上的跳躍者 發(fā)現(xiàn)于希臘克里特島
