纪录片《凡尔赛宫》 59七年王室婚姻的绝对秘密

It's so embarrassing,

这太尴尬了

a situation where all the courtiers hang about the bridal chamber¹.

所有幕僚都在婚房附近徘徊

I mean, it's inconceivable to us.

这对我们来说简直不可思议

They were allowed to do that and sort of more or less said,

他们可以自由来去 偶尔出言如此

How was it for you, sir?

对你来说如何 先生

And nothing happened

然而一切照旧

and he didn't consummate² it for a long time.

路易许久都未履行婚姻的职责

Precisely³ what was going on

对幕僚们来说

behind the bedroom door mystified the courtiers,

卧室门后究竟发生了什么十分神秘

and divides historians to this day.

直至今日 历史学家们仍对此争执不休

For the first seven years of the marriage,

婚姻的最初7年中

there is clearly a sexual problem.

国王夫妇性生活障碍重重

And certainly, either the couple do not have sex,

显然 夫妻双方未曾同寝

or they don't have sufficient sex.

或者说性事不频繁

Or they are not sufficiently⁴ instructed in sex matters

又或是无人指导他们如何

to actually produce pregnancies⁵ and children.

行周公之礼以繁衍后代

1 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

2 consummate   

adj.完美的；v.成婚；使完美 [反]baffle

参考例句：

• The restored jade burial suit fully reveals the consummate skill of the labouring people of ancient China.复原后的金缕玉衣充分显示出中国古代劳动人民的精湛工艺。
• The actor's acting is consummate and he is loved by the audience.这位演员技艺精湛，深受观众喜爱。

3 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

4 sufficiently   

adv.足够地，充分地

参考例句：

• It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
• The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。

5 pregnancies   

怀孕，妊娠( pregnancy的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Since the wartime population needed replenishment, pregnancies were a good sign. 最后一桩倒不失为好现象，战时人口正该补充。
• She's had three pregnancies in four years. 她在四年中怀孕叁次。