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And they did a thing where evidently somebody
節(jié)目里他們發(fā)現(xiàn)了顯然應(yīng)該還有人擁有圣杯殘片
I have it on tape suppose to have somebody still supposed to have the remnants of the grail
我把那期節(jié)目給錄下來(lái)了,確實(shí)還有人理應(yīng)擁有著圣杯的殘片
and those are great scenes
如果你看到過(guò)印第安納瓊斯電影的最后,那些精彩的片段
when the guy drink out of the wrong grail
當(dāng)有個(gè)人喝錯(cuò)了圣杯
but the right grail it wasn't ornate
圣杯其實(shí)是用木頭做的而不是極度華麗的
And the one they have in England theoretically was just some wood and this family probably owns it
從理論上來(lái)講,留在英國(guó)的那些碎片,應(yīng)該是一些木片,那個(gè)家族應(yīng)該仍擁有它們
and miracles are it they still pool water over it
這個(gè)圣杯仍擁有神力,人們至今仍在往里面倒水
and then bottle the water to this day
然后將這些水裝瓶
That they I don't know either they either sell or give away to perform miracles and stuff
我不知道是賣還是送給別人,來(lái)顯明神跡或做其他事
So people still believe in this stuff
所以人們?nèi)耘f相信這些
Let's get a little view of the history
我們?cè)賮?lái)看一下歷史
One of the things you always hear about professors is that their notes are yellow with age
你經(jīng)常會(huì)聽(tīng)到教授們說(shuō),他們的筆記隨著年歲增長(zhǎng)會(huì)泛黃
because they keep using the same notes
因?yàn)樗麄兛傆弥环莨P記
I actually, I've lost my notes for this lecture a couple of times
實(shí)際上我曾好幾次丟失過(guò)自己上課的筆記
So I've written three different lectures for it and one nice things about computers is that
所以我寫過(guò)三份不同的上課筆記,電腦的一個(gè)好處就是
your notes never get yellow with age cause you keep it under your computer
你的筆記不會(huì)因?yàn)槟隁q而泛黃,因?yàn)槟闶怯秒娔X儲(chǔ)存著的
and you print out new white copy every time
并且你每次打印出來(lái)的都是新的筆記
Last night I was trying to sit I kept saying
昨晚我試圖讓自己坐下并對(duì)自己說(shuō)
"I need to sit down and make one coherent lecture out of this"
"我必須坐下,然后把這些編成一堂連貫的課"
Then I made it by shuffling the pages together so I hope it comes off coherently
于是我便把這些內(nèi)容穿插在了一起,所以我希望結(jié)果是一篇連貫的文章
Half of men's recorded history
人類記載的歷史的一半
and again just listen to this in generality
再次申明,你們只需要知道大體
You don't need to write all these down
不用全寫下來(lái)
I'm not gonna test you these in detail
我不會(huì)考你們這些細(xì)節(jié)
Half of men's recorded history of past
人記載下了過(guò)去的歷史中的一半
before anyone in Europe could read or write
在歐洲的任何人可以讀寫之前
At about 2000 B C,this area is referred to as Europe started to change
那是在大約公元前2000年,這片被叫做歐羅巴的土地開(kāi)始發(fā)生改變
We start getting a steady infusion of people from Indian and Persian
印度和波斯人口開(kāi)始持續(xù)融入歐洲
And all these people are from the Indo-European language family
所有這些人都是來(lái)自印歐語(yǔ)系地區(qū)的
If you take a good English dictionary and open up the front
如果你拿起一本不錯(cuò)的英語(yǔ)詞典并且打開(kāi)前幾頁(yè)
You'll probably see a diagram of language families
很可能你會(huì)看到一張關(guān)于語(yǔ)系的表
and you'll see Indo-European which is a language we have evidence of
然后你會(huì)找到其中的印歐語(yǔ)系,這是一種我們沒(méi)有掌握任何書(shū)面記錄的語(yǔ)言
At the top these branches going out one will be like an Italic and out of Italic
在語(yǔ)系表的頂端你會(huì)看到各種語(yǔ)言是如何從頂端分化,這其中會(huì)有比如古意大利語(yǔ)系及其分支
you'll get Latin out of your Romance languages
還有拉丁語(yǔ)分支,你會(huì)找到衍生的羅曼斯語(yǔ)
Another group would be like Germanic
另外一個(gè)大的語(yǔ)系是日耳曼語(yǔ)系
