英语听力《爱尔兰的故事》

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A geographer living under Caesar’s rule described the Irish as a cannibal race who deemed itcommendable to devour their deceased fathers and who lived a miserable existence because of the cold.

But Mediterranean traders had long been immune to such dire warnings, and with the knowledge they brought back, a scholar created a geographical masterpiece. In this medieval copy of his book Geographia, we can see how Ptolemy mapped the world as it was known to the Romans around 150AD. And there on the westernmost point is Hibernia. This is the first map of Ireland and its peoples.

We can recognize some of the names, for example, Eblana is usually interpreted as Dublin, the river name, if the Shannon is there, for example, the river Lee, I suppose, which all Cork people would like to see mentioned. There are some names interesting enough here, we have Brigantes for example, and the Brigantes over here in West Wales, and they are clearly related.

What does that tell us?

Well, it works two ways. Either it means that there were Brigantes here in the west of Britain first of all, who then migrated to Ireland. But it is possible that they might actually represent population groups that originated in Ireland and then came to the western province of Britain, because you do have quite substantial Irish settlement in western Britain, in Wales, as we know it nowadays.

This notion of the Irish colonising parts of Britain, it rather turns our historical sense of things on its head, doesn’t it? We always like to see ourselves as the eternally put-upon, (It could be problematic.)conquered by the other lot. We were doing the same.

In this day and age, we’re insisting that everybody apologise to us, including our nearest neighbors, but I suppose if you go back far enough, we invaded them before they invaded us, so if there are apologies to be bandied about, we might take the first step, you know?

　　译文：

地理学家生活在凯撒的规则描述了爱尔兰作为一个食人族种族视为itcommendable吞噬他们的已故父亲和他过着悲惨的生活,因为冷。

但地中海交易员长期以来一直受如此可怕的警告,他们带回来的知识,创建了一个地理学者的杰作。在这个中世纪Geographia复制他的书,我们可以看到托勒密映射世界贸易被称为罗马人在公元150年左右。和最西端点是在爱尔兰。这是第一个地图爱尔兰和它的人民。

我们可以认识一些的名字,例如,Eblana通常解释为都柏林,河的.名字,如果有香农,例如,李,我想,所有的软木塞人希望看到提到。这里有一些有趣的名字,我们有Brigantes例如,Brigantes这里在威尔士西部,他们显然是相关的。

这告诉我们什么呢?

这两种方式工作。这意味着这里有Brigantes在英国西部的首先,然后迁移到爱尔兰。但他们实际上可能代表人群可能起源于爱尔兰,然后来到英国的西部省份,因为你有很大量的爱尔兰西部定居英国,在威尔士,正如我们所知,现在。

这个概念的爱尔兰英国殖民地区,而把我们的历史意义的东西,不是吗?我们总是希望自己永远受愚弄的,(可能是有问题的。)征服了其他很多。我们在做同样的事。

在这个时代,我们坚持每个人都向我们道歉,包括我们最近的邻居,但是我想如果你回去得足够远,我们入侵之前他们入侵,所以如果有道歉的传播,我们可能会迈出第一步,你知道吗?