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Heavenly vaults but made by the earthly hand of man.
凡人之手建造的神之穹頂
The imagined form of the universe.
是人們想象中宇宙的樣子
A circle.
圓
No beginning, no end, just wheeling eternity.
無始也無終 周而復始地旋轉著
Domes had appeared in antiquity
穹頂自古代與中世紀時
and the medieval centuries
便已出現
but never with such compulsive grandeur.
但從未如此宏偉 攝人心魄
In the 15th and 16th centuries,
十五與十六世紀時
domes appeared everywhere,
穹頂在各地拔地而起
constellations of them.
多如繁星
They were all the work of mortal men,
它們都是凡人的杰作
but by the lights of philosophers,
追隨著哲人的啟示
the infinite capacity of man's mind,
加上人類無限的想象力
made him a mortal God, king of the lower beings.
使他成為了塵世中的神 凡人的王
Artists and architects, East and West,
東西方的藝術家們與建筑家們
now began to be spoken of as touched by a divine gift.
開始宣稱他們是受到神靈的指點
From domes they built from Rome to Lahore,
從羅馬到拉合爾的穹頂
were the crowning achievement
都是這一美妙時期的
of this moment of supreme,
輝煌成果
almost sacrilegious, creative confidence.
彰顯著近乎逆天 卻又創(chuàng)造力無窮的自信
So, why do we treat those blossomings
所以為何我們像是對待另一星球的文明般
as though they were happening
看待這些如花朵般
on different cultural planets?
遍布各地的穹頂呢
Well, I think you will know the answer to that one.
你應該知道這個問題的答案
It's that word "Renaissance", isn't it?
是"文藝復興" 對嗎
Invariably attached to the word Italian
它總不可避免地和其發(fā)源地
by those who coined it.
意大利聯系起來
Oh, I know, every so often it's extended
我知道文藝復興波及甚廣
north and west to France and Germany,
北至德國 西至法國
and even, as far as literature was concerned,
凡是有文學的地方都深受其影響
to the very shores of Albion.
包括英國的每個角落
But if we want to feel the pulse of
但若是想深切感受
one of those great moments,
文藝復興那個美妙的時期
the surge of inventiveness,
那一人類極具創(chuàng)造力
when civilisation bounded forward,
并大幅推動文明前進的時期
we need to look much further than that.
我們還需將眼光放遠
We need to look East.
我們需要去東方看看
The great flowering we call the Renaissance
文藝復興的碩果很大程度上
owed much to Arab scholars
歸功于阿拉伯學者們
who recovered the lost classics of antiquity,
他們復原了失傳的古代科學
of science, mathematics, and philosophy.
數學和哲學經典
Through the centuries that followed,
之后的幾個世紀內
the outpouring of creativity
創(chuàng)造力的迸發(fā)
would flow both ways
使得東方伊斯蘭教
