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But it was not until the 1960s, that the gold pieces from the Mold grave were put together for the first time.
但直到二十世紀(jì)六十年代，這些黃金碎片才第一次被重新拼接起來。
All the conservators had was flattened fragments of paper-thin gold, some large, some small, with cracks, splits and holes all over them, altogether weighing just over a pound-about half a kilo.
當(dāng)時(shí)保管員們面對(duì)的只是一堆薄如紙片的扁平黃金碎片，有大有小，且每一塊上都有孔洞、裂痕與缺口，總重量約為半公斤。
It was like a huge three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, and solving it took nothing less than the re-learning of ancient gold-working techniques that had been lost for millennia.
修復(fù)工作如同三維立體拼圖，所花的工夫并不亞于重新學(xué)習(xí)已失傳千年的古代黃金加工技術(shù)所需要的時(shí)間。
It turned out to be a gold cape-or perhaps more accurately a short golden poncho.
這件令人屏息的物品是一件黃金披肩，更確切地說，是一件黃金短斗篷。
But we call it a cape, and I'm standing in front of it now.
但考古界仍稱其為披肩。而我現(xiàn)在就在它的面前。
It's a stunning, punched-gold wrapping for a human being.
它用金箔打造，用于包裹人的肩膀。
It's about a foot and a half wide and about a foot deep, and it would have been put over the head and lowered onto the shoulders, coming down to about the middle of the chest.
寬約四十五厘米，長三十厘米。可以從頭部套下，覆蓋肩部，下緣到胸部中央。
When you look at it closely, you can see that it's all been made out of one sheet of breathtakingly thin gold-and it's been calculated in fact that the whole thing could have been made from an ingot about the size of a ping-pong ball.
仔細(xì)觀察，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)這披肩是由一整片薄得驚人的黃金打造而成的。如果熔成金錠，不過乒乓球大小。
The very thin sheet of gold has then been worked from the inside and punched out-so that the overall effect is of strings of beads running from one shoulder to another and going all the way round the body.
工匠從金片內(nèi)部向外敲擊，逐漸將其延展，打造出成串珠鏈的效果，排列得非常仔細(xì)，從一個(gè)肩膀延伸到另 一個(gè)肩膀，最終環(huán)繞整個(gè)身體。
Looking at it now, you're struck with this as an object of enormous complexity and ultimate luxury.
今天的人們?nèi)匀粫?huì)為它的繁復(fù)工藝與極致奢華所震撼。
We don't know who made this, but it's perfectly obvious that they were very, very highly skilled.
想必當(dāng)時(shí)挖掘出這一披肩的釆石工們，也一定極為震驚。
