英语听力：探索发现 2012-08-22 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—17

 But Columbanus was deeply loyal to the idea of church led by the pope from Rome. He was a decentrer, not a revolutionary. He looked beyond the monastery¹ walls, imagining a Europe united in faith and culture. 

 

Is the narration² spoken in the language of English? Listened again, again and again, I only grasped two words but not quite sure of, Italia and Normandy. If what the seemingly kind and learned clergy⁴ spoke³ is English, then it is really a sort of blow for me.

 

In the letters and words of Columbanus, you would have heard an Irish voice that was learned, sometimes uncompromising and always thoughtful. At Bobbio he established one of the greatest libraries of the medieval world. Columbanus described himself as a decentrer whenever necessary. I can't help to thinking of James Joyce, writing about setting out to forward the uncreated conscience of his race. Columbanus, it seems to me, was doing it centuries before.

 

By the time he died here in Bobbio, Columbanus had established a thriving monastic centre. And he would look back too, at Ireland with some satisfaction. 

1 monastery   

n.修道院，僧院，寺院

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• She was appointed the superior of the monastery two years ago.两年前她被任命为这个修道院的院长。

2 narration   

n.讲述，叙述；故事；记叙体

参考例句：

• The richness of his novel comes from his narration of it.他小说的丰富多采得益于他的叙述。
• Narration should become a basic approach to preschool education.叙事应是幼儿教育的基本途径。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

4 clergy   

n.[总称]牧师，神职人员

参考例句：

• I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.我衷心希望，我国有更多的牧师效法这个榜样。
• All the local clergy attended the ceremony.当地所有的牧师出席了仪式。