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About 1984, I guess, I was in Basel,

1984年的时候 大概是 我当时在巴塞尔

right across the border from the Black Forest in Germany into Switzerland

刚刚过了德国黑森去往瑞士的边界

One of the things to see in Basel,

在巴塞尔 必须要去看的景观之一就是

they have a really neat modern art museum

那座整洁又现代的艺术博物馆

As you come into the exterior foyer, there's a bunch of big sculptures

当你进入外部大厅 那儿有许多大型雕塑

and there were the Burghers of Calais

以及"加莱的公民"

There must be a copy

那一定是个赝品

So I go up to the guard and I said, "That's a copy "

因此我朝保安走去并对他说"那是个赝品"

"No," he said, "That's the original "

"不"他说"这是真品"

"What about the one in Calais?"

"那在加莱的那个又是什么呢"

He says, "That's a copy "

他说"那才是赝品"

I couldn't track all those students down

我没法在我所有教过的学生面前纠正这个错误

I just hope they never talked about it, "You know, Dr George told me "

我只是希望他们从来没谈起过"乔治告诉过我 "

Anyway, that's a story about myself

无论如何 那是个关于我的故事

How I thought I was giving good information

我以为我提供的是好信息

I should have been more careful

我应该更谨慎些

One point, maybe we're about to point to stop today on page 97

那今天我们就停在97页

Something to correct you, if you were reading,

如果你阅读的话 有一些东西会纠正你的错误

you notice that this is the king's English

你会注意到这就是王的英语

I have a hard time since I've read so many history books

我阅读了大量历史书 那段时间我陷入了痛苦之中

written in English-English

那些历史书是用英式英语写的

that I simply spell some words

而我仅会拼写一些简单的单词

like armor m-o-u-r

例如把armor拼成了m-o-u-r

They don't look right to me, spelled in American-English

从美式英语的拼写来看 它们是不正确的

So I type them in on stuff I hand out and everything

因此 我把它们输入电脑 并分发出去

When I spell check, my computer comes back,

当我做拼写检查时 我的电脑就起作用了

"No, that's spelled wrong," it said "不

那个拼写是错误的"电脑反馈

So I click ignore because it looks right to me

但是我会忽略它们 因为对我来说它们是正确的

I figure, well, they'll just think I'm trying to be uppity,

我觉得 嗯 他们会认为我很自负

spelling in a different way

采用不同的拼写方式

They refer on the bottom of the page to a lime tree

他们在这一页的底部谈到了椴树

Gosh, if you read this, you must think, "This is the biggest lime tree "

天哪 如果你读这个 你肯定认为"这是最大的椴树"

It must have limes the size of grapefruits or watermelon

就像葡萄树或者是西瓜那么大

Since I teach German, this has been a problem in German classes

因为我是教德语的 在德语课上这也成为了一个问题

because a lot of the good dictionaries are produced in England

因为很多好的词典都是英格兰出版的

People look up a word and they'll find lime tree

大家在查找一个单词时 他们将找到椴树这个词

They'll say, "What's a lime tree doing growing there?"

他们会问"生长在那的椴树是什么样的"

A lime tree is a British term for a Linden tree

椴树在英国被称为菩提树

This isn't important

这不重要

I'm just telling you, if you're wondering, why it's a lime tree

我只是告诉你 如果你想知道为什么它是一棵椴树

It's a big shade tree

它有很大的树荫

Actually, if you walk out of Craig, headed toward main park campus

实际上 如果你走出克雷格 走向主校区

and turn back toward National, on that little piece of sidewalk

然后转身走到National 两旁郁郁葱葱的

where there's road trees on each side, those are Lindens

是菩提树

Those are huge Lindens

那些是巨型菩提树

The traditional Lindens are just a huge flowering shade tree,

传统的菩提树只是有着巨型的花样树荫

kind of the idea of a tulip tree or something that

它是一种构思的郁金香或者是

has a leaf that looks like a blossom in the spring

一种有叶的植物 那些叶让它看起来像春天开了花的植物

What you need to do for next class meeting,

尽管我一直都试着不说细节

I've been trying to be good about not saying any particular

但是我还是得提醒你为下次课堂做的准备

that ties us to where we are or what semester we're in but

将会让我们在接下来的课堂学习中如鱼得水

视频及简介

欧洲最早的人类居住遗迹可以回溯到公元前35000年的欧洲旧石器时代。定居点、农耕技术和驯养家畜出现于前7000年的欧洲新石器时代早期。从最早的有文字记载的文明到前1200年文明暂时倒退消失，铜是制作工具和武器的主要金属材料，历史学家把该时期命名为青铜时代。

欧洲古典时期从前700年古希腊文字再次出现开始。罗马共和国于前509年建立。罗马帝国的领土约于公元150年到达最大。395年，罗马帝国一分为二。476年，最后一个西罗马帝国皇帝罗慕路斯·奥古斯都被废黜，欧洲进入中世纪时期。