Phrasikleia faces death in the most forthright way,

佛雷斯科莱以最直率的方式面对死亡

resolutely refusing to be forgotten.

坚决拒绝被遗忘

But can an image of a person ever fix time,

但是一个人的肖像到底能不能改变时间

suspended death,

延缓死亡

or even, for a moment, deny it?

甚至是在某一刻拒绝死亡呢

That's what these vivid faces

那正是这些栩栩如生的脸庞

from Roman Egypt appear to do.

从罗马时代的埃及被保留下来的目的

Though 2,000 years have passed since these people died,

尽管这些人死去已有两千年之久

it feels like they're still with us.

但感觉像是他们还在我们身边

They looks like the kind of portraits

它们像是画廊墙壁上

that hang on gallery walls.

悬挂的那种肖像画

And that's where we often see them.

那也是我们可以经常看到它们的地方

But these portraits actually belong on coffins.

但这些肖像实际上应该被放在棺材上

Few have remained intact, but this is one of them.

很少有保存完好的 但这是其中之一

It contains a man named Artemidorus,

里面是一个叫阿特米多鲁斯的男人