欧美文化博览 南西班牙:领略无限风情(5)

（单词翻译）

When Saint Teresa first entered the convent, she was appalled¹ by the other sisters'lack of piety².

当圣特蕾莎修女首先进入修道院,她对于缺乏虔诚的其他姐妹感到震惊。

So to make a point, she staged her own personal reenactment of Christ being dragged to his crucifixion.

所以为了重视,她将以自己的方式再现基督被拖到十字架的情境。

She got on all force.

她全身心的投入。

She had herself saddled up with a mull pack full of stones, and she got one of the other sisters to lead her around the convent, on a halter.

她给自己背上一个塞满石头的大包,并且被束缚的她让其中一位姐妹带领自己穿梭于修道院。

These were the rooms where Teresa experienced her visions.

这是特蕾莎修女经历了自己幻想的房间。

She claimed that Christ appeared to her, right here, tight to the pillar on which she was scourged³.

她声称基督出现在她面前,就在这里,紧紧挨着她被鞭打的柱子。

Later, the power of the Holy Spirit took hold of her so strongly that her body shook and she began to levitate⁴.

后来,圣灵的能力强烈的抓住她,以至于她的身体颤抖并开始轻轻浮起。

And then, there was the most baffling phenomenon of all, a transverberation of the heart,

然后,最令人困惑的她的神秘经历现象出现

in which she felt she’d been speared through the heart by an angel and infused with the Holy Spirit.

她感到她被一位天使洞穿心脏而且心中充满了圣灵。