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And on the land behind them, there are streets
在他們身后的陸地上 我們可以看到
with multistorey houses,
街道邊的多層樓房
and in the richer of them, decorative paintings
較為富有人家的屋外還繪有裝飾畫
of the kind consumers would want for ever after.
是顧客看到就會一直想要的那種
This is the first truly
這是世人見到的第一件
social art the world had seen.
真正的展示社會形態的藝術作品
Here are beautiful youths duking it out.
這是美麗的青少年在進行拳擊
Here are saffron gatherers.
這些是藏紅花采集者
Here are swallows.
這里繪有燕子
A perpetual springtime brought into the living room.
客廳里永恒的春色
One contact sport dominated
跳牛是米諾斯文化中最主要的
Minoan culture - bull leaping.
一項接觸性運動
Young men, possibly women too,
從事這項運動的男青年 或許也有女青年
back flipping over charging bulls.
后空翻過奔跑的公牛
It's long been argued that this was too dangerous
這項運動太過危險 它到底是真實存在的
to have actually happened,
還是只是藝術所描繪的神話和幻想
that the art captures a myth, a fantasy.
是人們長期爭議的話題
And yet in the British Museum,
然而在大英博物館
there's a little bronze sculpture
有一尊小型青銅雕塑
that's pulsing with a natural energy
像是被自然的能量賦予了生命
that feels absolutely true to life.
使人感到如此逼真
