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And the Warren Cup is a good bit of exquisite hard evidence that proves that.
而且沃倫杯是一件極為珍貴的物證。
This cup is telling us what actually went on, how homosexual activity was something which took place in high aristocratic circles.
這只杯子告訴我們到底發生過什么,同性性行為如何在高貴族圈子里上演。
I think it's very interesting with this cup,
我認為這只杯子非常有趣，
because it's actually physically made from the inside out, so it's beaten from the inside and that's how you get the form on the outside, and that is almost what the Warren Cup is-it's a covert demonstration of what was actually going on in the real world outside."
因為它實際上是由內而外,從內部開始進行鍛造, 依照內部有了外部形狀。這就是是沃倫杯的一切—這實際上是由內而外展現外在的現實世界。”
Silver cups of this date are now exceptionally rare, as so many were melted down, and among the survivors, few in the world can match the virtuoso skill of the Warren Cup.
制作于這一時期的銀杯，流傳于世的極為稀少，其中大部分都已被熔化，極少數幸存者也鮮有沃倫杯這樣精湛的工藝。
To buy a cup like this you would have had to be rich, for it would have cost you somewhere around 250 denarii-and for that money you could have bought 25 large jars of the best wine, two thirds of an acre of land, or even an unskilled slave like the one we see peering round the door.
這樣的杯子只有富人才買得起，一只的價格大約二百五十枚古羅馬銀幣。這筆錢可以讓你買二十五罐最好的葡萄酒，三分之二英畝土地，或是一個類似圖中在門后窺探的奴隸少年。
So this indulgent little dining-piece places its owner firmly in the echelons of high society, in that very world that St Paul was so eloquently condemning for its drunkenness and its fornication.
因此這件小小的宴會用具的主人一定屬于上流社會那個因為驕奢淫逸而受到圣保羅強烈譴責的階層。
We don't know for certain, but it's thought that the Warren Cup was found buried at Bittir, a town a few miles south-west of Jerusalem.
我們對酒杯的發現地并不確定，據稱，它來自比提提爾附近的墓葬。這座鎮子位于耶路撒冷西南數英里。
How it got to this location is a mystery, but we can make a guess.
酒杯為何會在此出現還是一個鏈團， 但我們不妨一猜。
