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Protected by the sea on two sides, but closely packed.
兩面環海 布局緊湊
So even here people will have had to learn the skills
即使是在這里 居民也要學習
that any fixed settlement requires -
定居生活需要的技能
how to be neighbourly.
例如鄰里相處之道
But there's more to civilisation than keeping neighbours happy.
但文明不止于鄰里和睦
On Crete itself, we find the ruins of large towns
光是在克里特島上 就有大型城鎮的遺址
where the streets still thread their way,
街道穿過城鎮
opening onto grandiose plazas,
通往宏偉的廣場
spaces for ceremony and pomp,
在那里會舉行盛大典禮
for ritual and for politics.
宗教儀式 政治活動
Minoan cultural style spread across the Aegean Sea
米諾斯文明的文化風格穿越了愛琴海
to islands like Santorini.
來到了圣托里尼等島嶼
A volcanic eruption destroyed the port city of Akrotiri
約在公元前1627年 火山噴發
in around 1627 BCE,
摧毀了港口城市阿克羅蒂里
but the ash preserved the murals found here
但這里的壁畫上生動鮮明的形象
in all their vivid realism.
得以被火山灰保存下來
They raised the ghost of a seagoing civilisation,
它們展現了當時航海文明的景象
a clear ancestor of our own
這文明是我們現代航海文明的始祖
with its clamour and glamour, its commercial pulse.
迷人 喧鬧 商業繁華
These passengers aren't going to the afterlife,
這些旅客并不是要去來世
they're on ferries and festive excursions.
而是在渡輪上 在節日的歡慶中
