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It was built on the Acropolis-a rocky citadel at the heart of the city.
建于雅典市中心的石頭城堡—衛(wèi)城之上，
Its central hall housed a colossal statue of the goddess herself, made of gold and ivory.
中央大廳有雅典娜的巨大雕像，用象牙與黃金制成。
And everywhere there was sculpture.
石雕則無處不在。
Around all four sides of the building, above the columns and easily seen by everybody approaching, was a series of 92 square relief carvings, known as metopes.
在建筑物四面柱子的頂端，環(huán)繞著九十二幅系列方形石雕，被稱為排檔間飾，只要靠近神廟便清晰可見。
Like all the other sculpture in the building, these would have originally been brightly coloured in red and blue and gold, and it's one of these metopes, now without its colour, that I want to take as our object to think about Athens around 440 BC.
如建筑物中的其他雕像一樣，它們也曾被飾以艷麗的紅、藍(lán)、金色，而如今，顏色都已褪去。我挑選的雕像便是其中之一，我想通過它來講述公元前440年的雅典。
The metopes are all about battles-battles between the Olympian gods and the Giants, between Athenians and Amazons and, in the ones I want to focus on, between Lapiths and Centaurs.
這些排檔間飾都與戰(zhàn)爭有關(guān)—奧林匹亞眾神與巨人的戰(zhàn)爭，雅典人與亞馬孫女戰(zhàn)士的戰(zhàn)爭，以及本文將要講述的半人馬與拉庇泰人的戰(zhàn)爭。
The figures are almost free-standing, and the human ones are about four feet tall.
雕像中的形象幾乎都彼此獨立，人像高達(dá)一米。
Centaurs-half horse, half human-are attacking the Lapiths, who are a legendary Greek people.
半人馬正在攻擊傳說中的希臘民族拉庇泰人。
According to the story, the Lapiths made the mistake of giving the Centaurs wine at the marriage feast of their king.
故事里說，在拉庇泰國王的婚宴上，人們犯了個錯誤，
The Centaurs got horribly drunk and attempted to rape the women, while their leader tried to carry off the bride.
讓半人馬喝醉了酒。爛醉的半人馬企圖強奸婦女，他們的首領(lǐng)則想掠走新娘。
A general bitter battle ensued, and the Lapiths-the Greeks-were ultimately victorious over their half-animal Centaur enemies.
一場惡戰(zhàn)由此展開，拉庇泰人，也就是希臘人，贏得了最終勝利，戰(zhàn)勝了半人馬。
The one I'm looking at now is particularly moving; there are only two figures-a Centaur rearing triumphantly over a fallen Lapith, who lies dying on the ground.
本節(jié)中的這幅雕像尤為動人：只有兩個角色，其中，半人馬擺出勝利者的姿態(tài)，正要踏向倒地掙扎的拉庇泰人。
As with so many of the Parthenon sculptures, this one is damaged, and we can no longer see the expression in the dying Lapith's face, or the aggression in the eyes of the Centaur.
如眾多的帕臺農(nóng)浮雕一樣， 這幅浮雕也已毀損，如今，我們無法看清垂死的拉庇泰人臉上的表情，也看不清半人馬兇狠的眼神。
