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It's really weird to get in Europe
去歐洲時我覺得很不可思議
Last time I was in Paris, went out to Chartres,
上次我去巴黎,去了沙特爾
the big cathedral outside of Paris
那是巴黎外圍的一座大教堂
and they started building that thousand, thousand, thousand years ago
那是一座幾千年前就開始建造起來的建筑物
It's just, you know for us it's so weird you know
對于我們來說,這真是不可思議的
to be standing, gosh, people have been wandering here
天啊,我們竟然站在一個
for thousand years in the structure
人們在這里已經(jīng)來來往往了千年的地方
and so you know the sense of antiquity
這時你才會體會到古跡的風(fēng)采
it's hard for Americans
對于美國人來說這是極難得的
because everything's almost post modern
因為所有的東西基本上都是后現(xiàn)代的
Our whole society is post modern
我們整個社會都是后現(xiàn)代的
Anyway, also a Aix-la-Chapelle you might as well know this
不管怎么說,亞琛這個地方
and the ruler was a German an ethnic group
現(xiàn)在的統(tǒng)治者是德國這個民族
that had been left out of ancient civilization
這個由古文明保留下來的地方
Charlemagne did a lot of things he foster education,
查理大帝做了很多事,比如鼓勵教育發(fā)展
he said that all monasteries had to open up schools
他要求所有的修道院必須開設(shè)學(xué)校
and so we tried to have more literacy
來提高全民的讀寫能力
he ordered certain things be written down
他命令一些特定的事情必須被記載下來
This is the beginning of German being a written language mostly
就是這時,德語開始成為一門被記載的語言
documents like glossaries like German words or Latin words
就是那時有了德語單詞和拉丁語單詞的詞匯表
or translations into the native languages of like Our Father,
還有一些當(dāng)?shù)卣Z言的翻譯,比如 "我父"
and things in that nature, not really literature
很多這樣的文化興盛起來,但并不是真正的文學(xué)
Also the alphabet was developed at this time,
字母表亦是那個時候發(fā)展起來的
which is the basis of our alphabet
便成了我們今日所用字母的基礎(chǔ)
This empire didn't last even though we have new hoards
但這個帝國并沒有一直長存下去
of the Hungarians Germanic tribes,
盡管有了匈牙利日耳曼群落的加入
actually made it all the way to Kiev in 864,
盡管這個帝國在公元864年延伸到了烏克蘭的基輔
we made it to Iceland in 874,
還在公元874年延伸到了冰島
and of course much to Christopher Columbus' should grand historically
克里斯托弗哥倫布立下的歷史性功勞
They made it to the Americas by the year 1000
他在公元1000年將帝國的范圍延伸到了美國
They still find like I was reading recently
我最近還讀到
about the studying of settlement sites in Lutheran
關(guān)于路德教植根地區(qū)的一些研究
They were tribute back to the Vikings
還有來自維京人的進貢
Really interesting stuff
這段歷史實在是很有趣
