一场精神革命

Babylon in the Middle East,

巴比伦位于中东

A great city famed for its Hanging Gardens.

以空中花园闻名于世界

Here, a spiritual revolution is underway.

在这里 正孕育着一场精神革命

The Age of Iron is an age of new people,

铁器时代是新人类

New ideas,

新思想

And faiths that still

和新信仰形成的时代

dominate mankind's world today.

至今它们仍影响着人类社会的发展

Across the world, local religions give way

世界的各个角落 本土宗教都为

To powerful new beliefs,

文字记载的强大新信仰

Spread by the written word.

让路

World faiths still with us today.

时至今日 我们仍旧持有这些信仰

Hinduism unites much of India.

印度大部分地区信奉印度教

From the foothills of the Himalayas,

而在喜马拉雅山脉的脚下

The words of Buddha spread out across Asia.

佛教的禅语传遍亚洲

And in China, the writings of Confucius

在中国 孔子的作品

Will help order the lives of one quarter of the world.

滋养着这个拥有世界人口四分之一的国家

The age of Jesus and Buddha and Confucius,

耶稣 佛陀以及孔子产生的时代

there seems to be a period

似乎都与

roughly timed with the emergence of iron technology.

铸铁工艺出现的时代大致吻合

It's as though humankind all around the earth

这个时代 地球上所有的人类

is reaching a level of social and political sophistication

都在向更精致的社会和政治生活前进

that just hadn't been there before,

这是前所未有的

and they're all doing it about the same time.

而且所有这一切都在同时进行

重点讲解

1、dominate

在…中占首要地位，在…中最具影响力

The book is expected to dominate the best-seller lists.

这本书预计会占据畅销书排行榜的榜首。

countries where life is dominated by war.

战事频繁的国家

控制;统治;支配

He denied that his country wants to dominate Europe.

他否认他的国家想要控制欧洲。

Women are no longer dominated by the men in their relationships.

在两性关系中女性不再受制于男性。

俯视;高耸于

It's one of the biggest buildings in this area, and it really dominates this whole place.

这是该地区最大的建筑物之一，雄踞在整个地区之上。

its skyline dominated by the central mosque.

中央的清真寺高耸天际

2、spread

摊开;铺开

She spread a towel on the sand and lay on it.

她在沙滩上铺了一条毛巾，躺在上面。

His coat was spread over the bed.

他的外套摊在床上。

伸出，张开,叉开(手臂、双手、手指、双腿等)

Sitting on the floor, spread your legs as far as they will go without overstretching.

坐在地板上，在不要拉伤的前提下将双腿尽量分开。

He stepped back and spread his hands wide. 'You are most welcome to our home.'

他往后退了一步，伸开双手。“非常欢迎你到我们家来。”

涂;抹;敷

Spread the mixture in the cake tin and bake for 30 minutes.

将混合物抹在蛋糕烤盘里，烘烤 30 分钟。

A thick layer of wax was spread over the surface.

表面涂上了厚厚的一层蜡。

(使)传播;(使)散布;(使)扩散

The industrial revolution which started a couple of hundred years ago in Europe is now spreading across the world.

两百多年前始于欧洲的工业革命目前正在向全世界传播。

the sense of fear spreading in residential neighborhoods.

在住宅小区中蔓延的恐惧感