西哥特人

西哥特人将他们自己视作宇宙的中心。

The Visigoths think of themselves as the center of the universe .

欧洲用了几乎一千年的时间才从西哥特人所造成的破坏中恢复过来。

It took Europe almost a thousand years to recover from the Visigoths .

伊比利亚人，Tartessian，凯尔特人，腓基尼人，迦太基人，希腊人，罗马人，日尔曼人（Suevi和西哥特人）和摩尔人的文化都影响了这个国家。

Iberian , Tartessian , Celtic , Phoenician and Carthaginian , Greek , Roman , Germanic ( Suevi and Visigoth ) and Moorish cultures have all made an imprint on the country .

西哥特人在语言上的追求最多只是陈词滥调。

Visigoth 's language aspires to nothing higher than the clich é s.

西哥特人不尊重甚至不承认其他标准。

No other standard is respected or even acknowledged by the Visigoth .

你必定是一个雅典人或西哥特人。

You must be an Athenian or a Visigoth .

对西哥特人而言，除了流行以外，根本就没有衡量优秀艺术作品的尺度。

To a Visigoth , there is no measure of artistic excellence except popularity .

西哥特人是一种观念。

And a Visigoth is an idea .

我们称他们为西哥特人，你们也许还记得你们的六年级或七年级老师提到过他们。

We call them the Visigoths , and you may remember that your sixth or seventh-grade teacher mentioned them .

罗马被西哥特人洗劫了。这次如此糟糕以至人们认为世界末日到了。

Rome is sacked by the visigoths , an event so terrible that many thought the world was ending !

现代的西哥特人只关心自己的事，根本不知道团体的含义。

A modern Visigoth is interested only in his own affairs and has no sense of the meaning of community .

同雅典人一样，西哥特人也消亡了，不过是在他们带来一个被称作黑暗时代的时期之后。

Like the Athenians , the Visigoths also disappeared , but not before they had ushered in the period known as the Dark Ages .

西哥特人最喜欢做的莫过于焚烧书籍、亵渎建筑、或者毁坏艺术品。

There was nothing a Visigoth liked better than to burn a book , desecrate a building , or smash a work of art .

第二部分，结合所掌握的文献资料，论述了罗马帝国解体、进入中世纪后，西哥特人在西班牙的统治状况。

Part two , regarding to the known materials , describes the Visigothic governance in Spain after the Rome disintegration that was in the Middle Ages .

对一个西哥特人而言，探求知识毫无用途，除非它能帮助你赚钱或者获得统治他人的权力。

To a Visigoth , the quest for knowledge is useless unless it can help you to earn money or to gain power over other people .

当然，我的意思不是说我们现代的雅典人遐想着漫步于街头，吟诵着诗歌和哲学，或者现代的西哥特人是嗜杀成性者。

I do not mean , of course , that our modern-day Athenians roam abstractedly through the streets reciting poetry and philosophy , or that the modern-day Visigoths are killers .

现在，我想说明的一点是，雅典人和西哥特人仍然活着，他们通过我们以及我们的生活方式而活了下来。

Now , the point I want to make is that the Athenians and the Visigoths still survive , and they do so through us and the ways in which we conduct our lives .

它建于公元125年，创建者为罗马皇帝哈德里安，该城创建之前原是一座色雷斯的小城，在不同时期曾被西哥特人、保加利亚人、十字军、土耳其人和俄国人占领。

It was founded c.ad125 by the Roman emperor Hadrian on the site of an earlier Thracian town and was conquered at various times by Visigoths , Bulgarians , Crusaders , Turks , and Russians .