历史频道《人类:我们的故事》第二集06:兵临城下

Bearing down on them, the superpower of the day:

当时的超级大国 波斯帝国

Persia.

兵临城下

Sparta is just 3000 square miles.

斯巴达国土面积只有三千平方英里

The Persian empire, more than a million.

而波斯帝国 其面积超过一百万平方英里

The battle they face against the odds

这场胜算渺茫的战争

Will shape the story of mankind.

将在人类历史上留下浓墨重彩的一笔

Pausanias is holding Sparta together

在他的叔叔 也就是斯巴达国王驾崩后

After the death of the king, his uncle.

保萨尼亚斯让斯巴达团结一致

They prepare for a final battle to defend Greece.

为保卫希腊 他们准备决一死战

They're the baddest human beings on the planet Earth

他们是地球上最劣迹斑斑的人类

and they wanna stay that way.

而他们也乐于如此

It's really "We're gonna breed the ultimate warriors.

"真是那种"我们要培养终极勇士"的感觉

And they build a whole caste system,

他们创建了等级制度

a whole belief system, around this idea.

围绕这个制度 又构建了一整套信仰体系

In Sparta, from the age of seven,

在斯巴达 男孩们从七岁开始

Boys are trained as warriors.

就被当做战士训练

At 18, they join Sparta's army,

到了十八岁 他们加入斯巴达军队

The most fearsome,

最可怕的是

Most disciplined fighting force on earth.

这是世上纪律最严明的军队

Young men were taken away from their families

年轻人被迫离开家人

and lived a very what we call a Spartan life,

过着简单清苦的生活 我们称之为斯巴达生活

a life without luxury

这是一种毫无享受可言

and a life of deprivation

失去自我的生活

and a life training and testing their courage.

这里只有无休止的训练以及勇气的考验

重点讲解

1、shape

形状;外形;轮廓;样子

Each mirror is made to order and can be designed to almost any shape or size.

每面镜子都是定制的，几乎可以设计成任何形状和尺寸。

little pens in the shape of baseball bats.

棒球棒形状的小钢笔

模糊的影子;蒙的轮廓

The great grey shape of a tank rolled out of the village.

一个坦克的巨大灰影从村子里开了出来。

Lying in bed we often see dark shapes of herons silhouetted against the moon.

躺在床上,我们常看到月光映衬下鹭的黑色身影。

决定…的形成;影响…的发展

Christian Democratic leaders are meeting to discuss their role in shaping the future of Europe.

基督教民主党的领袖们正在会晤讨论他们在影响欧洲未来格局的过程中将要扮演的角色。

Like it or not, our families shape our lives and make us what we are.

无论喜欢与否，家庭影响了我们的生活，决定了我们成为什么样的人。

使成为…形状;塑造

Cut the dough in half and shape each half into a loaf.

将生面团一切为二，再分别揉成长条形。

machinery for shaping the plutonium core of nuclear weapons.

制造核武器钚核心的机器

2、ultimate

最后的；最终的

He said it is still not possible to predict the ultimate outcome.

他说现在还无法预料最终的结局。

The ultimate aim is to expand the network further.

最终目的是为了进一步拓展该网络。

最根本的；最基础的；最原始的

Plants are the ultimate source of all foodstuffs...

植物是所有食物的最根本来源。

The ultimate cause of what's happened seems to have been the advertising campaign.

出事的最根本原因似乎在于那场广告宣传活动。

最重要的；最强大的；至高的

the ultimate power of the central government.

中央政府的至高权力

Of course, the ultimate authority remained the presidency.

当然，拥有最高权力者依然是总统。

极端的；极度的；令人极其不快的

Being removed from his post during operations is the ultimate humiliation for a ship's captain.

在执行任务的过程中被免职，这对一位船长来说是莫大的耻辱。

Treachery was the ultimate sin.

背叛是最不可饶恕的罪孽。