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英語(yǔ)聽力文摘《巴比倫空中花園之謎》
巴比倫空中花園，是古代世界七大奇跡之一，又稱懸園。在前6世紀(jì)由新巴比倫王國(guó)的尼布甲尼撒二世在巴比倫城為其患思鄉(xiāng)病的王妃安美依迪絲修建的�，F(xiàn)已不存。在巴比倫文獻(xiàn)中，空中花園僅是一個(gè)謎，甚至沒有一篇提及空中花園。下面，我們跟著英語(yǔ)聽力文摘來看看巴比倫空中花園之謎。
The Babylonian kingdom flourished under the rule of the famous King, Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC). It was not until the reign of the Neo-Babylonian dynasty that the Mesopotamian civilization reached its ultimate glory. Nebuchadnezzar II (604 -562 BC) is credited for building the legendary Hanging Gardens. It is said that the Gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his wife or concubine who had been “brought up in Media and had a passion for mountain surroundings”.
古巴比倫王國(guó)在著名的國(guó)王漢謨拉比(公元前1792-1750)的統(tǒng)治下曾經(jīng)繁榮一時(shí)。但是直到新巴比倫王朝，美索不達(dá)米亞文明才達(dá)到了它的鼎盛時(shí)期。人們相信傳說中的空中花園是由尼布甲尼撒二世(公元前604年-562年)建造的。據(jù)傳，尼布甲尼撒為了取悅于其在米底亞長(zhǎng)大并對(duì)山景懷有深厚感情的王后或者是妃子而建造了空中花園。
While the most descriptive accounts of the Gardens come from Greek historians such as Berossus and Diodorus Siculus, Babylonian records stay silent on the matter. Tablets from the time of Nebuchadnezzar do not have a single reference to the Hanging Gardens, although descriptions of his palace, the city of Babylon, and the walls are found. Even the historians who give detailed descriptions of the Hanging Gardens never saw them. Modern historians argue that when Alexander’s soldiers reached the fertile land of Mesopotamia and saw Babylon, they were impressed. When they later returned to their rugged homeland, they had stories to tell about the amazing gardens and palm trees at Mesopotamia... About the palace of Nebuchadnezzar…About the Tower of Babel and the ziggurats. And it was the imagination of poets and ancient historians that blended all these elements together to produce one of the World Wonders.
雖然對(duì)花園最詳盡的記述是出自Berossus和Diodorus Siculus等希臘歷史學(xué)家筆下，但巴比倫的歷史記錄卻對(duì)此事只字未提。盡管在尼布甲尼撒時(shí)期存留下的各種書寫板上發(fā)現(xiàn)了對(duì)他的宮殿、巴比倫城以及巴比倫的城墻的種種描述，但這些書寫板上卻沒有一處提到過空中花園。甚至那些對(duì)空中花園進(jìn)行過詳細(xì)描述的歷史學(xué)家們也從沒有親眼目睹過它們�，F(xiàn)代歷史學(xué)家爭(zhēng)論說：當(dāng)亞力山大的士兵們到達(dá)了富饒的美索不達(dá)米亞地區(qū)并看到了巴比倫時(shí)，他們深為(眼前的美景)所震撼。當(dāng)他們后來回到崎嶇不平的家鄉(xiāng)時(shí)，帶回了有關(guān)美索不達(dá)米亞的令人驚嘆的花園和椰子樹…、有關(guān)尼布甲尼撒的宮殿…以及有關(guān)巴別塔和金字型神塔的各種故事。是詩(shī)人和古代歷史學(xué)家的想象力把這所有的元素混合在一起制造出了世界奇觀之一。
It wasn't until the twentieth century that some of the mysteries surrounding the Hanging Gardens were revealed. Archaeologists are still struggling to gather enough evidence before reaching the final conclusions about the location of the Gardens, their irrigation system, and their true appearance.
直到二十世紀(jì)，圍繞著空中花園的一些不解之迷才被揭示 出來。在得到關(guān)于花園的地理位置、灌溉系統(tǒng)，和真正面目的最終結(jié)論之前，考古學(xué)家們?nèi)栽谂Φ厥占銐虻淖C據(jù)。
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