纪录片《文明》 第208期 重要的火花（20）

Fully¹ featured, each one,because they're ennobled by the service they're offering to power and immortality².

每一个塑像的五官都被生动勾勒 因为他们为能够服务于权力和永恒而感到高尚

But nobility has gone.

但是高尚已不在

That long tradition has ended here -in a vessel³ suspended between ceiling and floor,life and death,on a journey to safety or to an annihilation...

这个悠久的传统结束于此 在天花板和地板之间悬挂的船只上在生与死之间 在通往安全 亦或是消亡的旅途之中

..So the faces of these figures are featureless because they are, after all, the flotsam of humanity.

这些人物的脸是没有五官的 因为在人性面前 它们终究不值一提

And this kind of disaster happens over and over again and again.

而这样的灾难 反反复复 一次又一次地发生

The fate of the uprooted⁴, their ceaseless, epic⁵ wandering,is also at the heart of the work of the Israeli artist Michal Rovner.

流离失所 不断颠沛流离的命运 也是以色列艺术家米哈尔·罗夫纳 作品的核心

On the walls of her studio in a farm village,long lines, trails of figures, not computer-generated but animated⁶ individual photographs,move incessantly⁷ across unforgiving arid⁸ landscapes.

在她农庄工作室的墙上 排着长队的人物图像 不是电脑制作的 但是照片上的动态个体 在无情的旱地上 不停前行

Settlement denied.

无法安顿下来

Civilisation⁹ presupposes a settled city population,but Rovner's is an art of the human condition of migration¹⁰...

文明预设了一个固定的城市人口 但是罗夫纳的作品呈现了人们迁移的处境

..Being forever between places.

永远在各个地方之间辗转

There are projections¹¹ on stone in which Hebrew letters morph into people who dip and bow,as indeed they do in fervent¹² Jewish prayer.

石头上投影着希伯来字母演变而成的弯腰和鞠躬的人 就像他们在热烈的犹太祷告中做的那样

Others are ghost documents covered in script,but, when you look closely,you realise the characters are humans.

而其他的则像天书一样 但是 当你近看的时候 你发现这些字符就是人类

We are what we write, our language defines us.

我们就是我们所写 我们的语言定义了我们

1 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

2 immortality   

n.不死，不朽

参考例句：

• belief in the immortality of the soul 灵魂不灭的信念
• It was like having immortality while you were still alive. 仿佛是当你仍然活着的时候就得到了永生。

3 vessel   

n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管

参考例句：

• The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
• You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

4 uprooted   

v.把（某物）连根拔起( uproot的过去式和过去分词 )；根除；赶走；把…赶出家园

参考例句：

• Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着，树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 epic   

n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的

参考例句：

• I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
• They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。

6 animated   

adj.生气勃勃的，活跃的，愉快的

参考例句：

• His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
• We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。

7 incessantly   

ad.不停地

参考例句：

• The machines roar incessantly during the hours of daylight. 机器在白天隆隆地响个不停。
• It rained incessantly for the whole two weeks. 雨不间断地下了整整两个星期。

8 arid   

adj.干旱的；(土地)贫瘠的

参考例句：

• These trees will shield off arid winds and protect the fields.这些树能挡住旱风,保护农田。
• There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones.在一些干旱地带存在严重的土地退化问题。

9 civilisation   

n.文明，文化，开化，教化

参考例句：

• Energy and ideas are the twin bases of our civilisation.能源和思想是我们文明的两大基石。
• This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation.这部歌剧是西方文明的文化标志物之一。

10 migration   

n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙

参考例句：

• Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
• He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。

11 projections   

预测( projection的名词复数 )； 投影； 投掷； 突起物

参考例句：

• Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
• The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。

12 fervent   

adj.热的，热烈的，热情的

参考例句：

• It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。
• Austria was among the most fervent supporters of adolf hitler.奥地利是阿道夫希特勒最狂热的支持者之一。