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Arthur is supposed to float away to Avalon, On a magic barge
亚瑟王躺在一艘仙船上漂向了阿瓦隆
What's Avalon?
阿瓦隆是什么呢
Sound like we have some Catholic people here to me
好像我们这儿有天主教徒
I always involve Avalon more like kinda like purgatory,
对于我来说我经常会把阿瓦隆和炼狱牵扯到一块
You know, it is not really like you're finally some place,
这并不是说你最终找到了某个地方
You're kinda of some place between
你最终来到了中转站
And Avalon, the way it's presented,
至于阿瓦隆从对它的描述来看
It's almost like a holy ground
几乎就像是一块圣土
Like you can return from there,
好像你可以从那返回一样
And so it's not buried but it's one or more Holy Sepulchres
所以并没有被埋葬而是一个更神圣的墓地
Sepulchre burial spot and this part of the point of the documentary
神圣的埋葬地点 这是纪录片中的一部分
Where is Arthur from?
亚瑟王从哪里来
Everybody wants to claim him
谁都想给他定位
George Washington slept here
乔治华盛顿埋在这了
Arthur is buried here, Arthur is buried there
亚瑟王埋在这儿了 亚瑟王埋在那儿了
and somehow makes where we are more valuable
想要以这种方式使我们所在的地方更有价值
If we look at some heroes, not to beat this up,
如果我们想要看一些英雄的话
This is a very good book
不要把这本书弄坏了这是本很好的书
It's never in the library
总是被借出去
I, I got frustrated because I was trying to be a good faculty member
我感到很失意 因为想当一个好职工
I use it and return it and then I never find it again
所以用了之后我就还回去 之后我就再也找不到了
So, finally this summer, I went over to the library,
所以最终今年夏天我去了图书馆
When I knew nobody would be around
看到周围没人的时候
Got it out and I Xeroxed out what I wanted
我把这本书拿出来然后影印了我想要的
Just said okay cause
只是说说啊 好 因为
I kinda always like to show people the book
我总是很喜欢给别人看这本书
And say "Look, here's the book!"
并说"看 这本书在这"
Then we pick out people from both Rome and Greece
然后我们从罗马和希腊神话中挑一些人
But I thought for all of us it might be more interesting
但我觉得看一些我们大家都熟悉的东西
to look at something that maybe most of us are familiar with
可能会更有趣吧
Let's look at a couple of characters from the Bible and see
我们看几个上的人物吧
You know, this won't be on the test but just again
这些考试也不会考但和之前一样
To give an idea of what we're talking about
只是让你们明白我们正在讨论的东西
And remember The Old Testament is highly edited,
要记得旧约可是被很好地编辑了的
And so, to for good or bad
所以不论好坏吧
Take somebody like Joseph
比如说以约瑟为例吧
Joseph fulfils twelve points
约瑟占了十二点
If you can get up about twelve or thirteen,
你要是能完成十二或十三点
You're, you're a real decent hero
你就是个正统的英雄了
If you get up like seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
你要是能完成十七十八十九点的话
It's obvious that they've been playing a lot with your life
那很明显他们对你的生活影响很大
To make you a better hero yhan you might naturally be
使你成为你本可以成为得更好的英雄
And so we think about Joseph, his mother,
所以我们想到了约瑟 他的妈妈
his mother Rachel is a daughter of a patriarch
他的妈妈拉结是一位族长的女儿
And his father Jacob is a patriarch
他的爸爸雅各是一位族长
And her first cousin
并且是他的堂兄
His mother conceives him by eating a mandrake
他的妈妈是因为吃了曼德拉草才怀了他的
Remember that, you know, it's dangerous
这点要记住 很危险的
Don't go out eating mandrakes
不要出去吃曼德拉草
