纪录片《文明》 第47期 自视如何（8）

（单词翻译）

Imagine the public plazas¹ and the shady sanctuaries²

想象一下在公共广场和荫蔽的圣所中

full of people in stone as well as people in flesh and blood.

石头雕成的人像与四处走动的人一样多

We begin to get the point of all this if we look at the art form

只要再看看另一种包含更多形体的艺术

that contained more bodies than any other.

我们就能更好地理解这一点

The red and black of Athenian ceramics³.

红黑配色的雅典陶器

These are some of the finest examples we have.

它们是我们手头最好的例子

Made from around 600 BC,

约公元前600年

they were produced in luscious⁴ colours

它们经过复杂的多重烧制

using an intricate process of multiple firings.

得以呈现鲜艳的颜色

They were turned out in their millions.

这样的陶器有数百万个

And with almost every surface displaying pictures of people,

几乎每一个表面都印着人的图案

it was pottery⁵

正是陶器

that made the human image ubiquitous across Athens.

让人体形象流行于雅典

These are two of my very favourite Greek pots.

这两个是我最喜欢的希腊陶罐

This is ordinary crockery,

这是普通的陶器

it's everyday homeware,

日常家用

the kind of thing you might have found on the kitchen shelf

你可以在任何一个雅典家庭的厨房架子上

in an Athenian house.

找到这种陶器