【众神之车】（曾译名"向往将来"）
改编自埃里希·冯·丹尼肯的《众神之车》及《回归群星》
帕洛玛山的天文台 The observatory at Mount Palomar
海拔近6000英尺 almost 6,000 feet above sea level
坐落在加利福尼亚山区 in the California mountains
配备了世界上最大的反射望远镜 is equipped with the world's largest reflecting telescope
它巨大的凹面镜可以将 Its immense concave mirror intensifies the light
距离最远的恒星的光线加强1000倍 from the farthest star 1,000 times
必须铺设45英里长的特殊路基 A special road bed 45 miles long
以便将其运输到天文台 had to be laid to transport to the observatory, this mirror
其直径超过16英尺 which measures more than 16 feet across
帕洛玛山望远镜可以探测到 The Mount Palomar telescope can probe the universe
四十亿光年以外的宇宙 to a point four billion light years away
以英里表示 一光年是 One light year is expressed in terms of miles
6后面跟12个0 by a six followed by 12 zeros
在这里拍摄的星云 The nebulae photographed here
距离地球达二十亿光年之远 are two billion light years from the Earth
以英里计 12后面跟21个0 or in miles, the figure 12, followed by 21 zeros
帕洛玛山的巨眼可以看到 The giant eye of Mount Palomar can see
天上亿万颗星星 billions of stars in the heavens
今天 全世界的科研人员 Today,scientific investigators the world over
被一个有趣的问题所吸引 are absorbed by a fascinating question
这其中有多少星星可能存在生命呢 on how many of these stars could life exist
例如我们知道 仅在我们的银河系中 We know for instance that in our galaxy alone
就多达1500万颗星星 as many as 15 million stars
可以支持高度发达的生命形式 could support a highly developed form of life
我们自己的星球很可能 It's quite possible that our own planet
在过去某个遥远的时刻 at some remote moment in its past
有一位来自这1500万颗星星之一的来访者 had a visitor from one of these 15 million stars.
世界著名的火箭专家 沃纳·冯·布劳恩 The world renowned rocketry expert,Wernher von Braun
曾表示 "我认为很有可能 has stated, "I hold as a definite probability
在宇宙的无限范围内 the existence of not only animal and vegetable life
不仅存在动植物 in the infinite reaches of the Universe
还有智慧生物" but also that of intelligent beings"
赫尔曼·奥伯斯教授 Professor Hermann Oberth
星际旅行之父 则说 the father of interplanetary travel,told us this
"我相信 未知的超级智慧的外来生物 "I believe that it's possible for unknown foreign beings
在过去的某个时间点曾访问过我们的星球 of a superior intelligence to have visited our planet
是完全可能的 at a remote point in time
科学家们迅速采取 Scientists are quick to adopt
对新思想的消极态度 a negative attitude towards new ideas
铁路刚问世的时候 When the railroad was invented
他们认为人类无法承受 they protested that humans were incapable of withstanding
超过20英里的时速而加以反对" speeds of over 20 miles an hour"
俄罗斯科学家卡赞采夫 The Russian scientist Kazantsev
来自莫斯科自然科学院 他断言 member of the Moscow Academy of Natural Science,asserts
"关于是否有具有超级智慧的外星人 "to the question of whether extraterrestrial beings
曾经造访过地球的问题 gifted with intelligence,have ever visited the Earth
我会给出肯定的答案" I would reply in the affirmative"
在明斯克科学院 At the Academy of science in Minsk
瓦切斯拉夫·萨采夫博士宣称 Dr.Wiatscheslav Saitsew has declared
"就个人而言 我坚信 "personally, I'm absolutely convinced
域外生物曾经在我们的星球上降落 that extraterrestrial creatures have stopped on our planet
因为他们留下了很多痕迹 because of the many traces they left behind
他们的痕迹我们尚无法解读 We have not yet learned how to interpret their traces
只有当我们自己到达外星球时 Only as we reach for the stars ourselves
之前那些穿过星河造访地球的想法 does the idea of earlier
才变得可以理解" interplanetary contact with earth become conceivable"
人类一直梦想着挣脱地球 Man has always dreamed of rising above the Earth
在科学发展的早期 他学会了飞行 Early in the age of science,he learned to fly
但还不满足 but it wasn't enough
他到了月亮 发现它也可以掌握 He reached for the Moon and found it within his grasp
火箭技术取得了惊人的进步 The stunning advancement of rocket technology
使得整个宇宙似触手可及了 has put the entire heavens within our reach
在本世纪 人类将登陆火星 In the course of this century,man will land on Mars
下个世纪 就是金星了 In the next one,on Venus
当我们的宇航员踏上另一个有人居住的星球时 How will our astronauts be welcomed
他们将被如何对待 when they set foot on another populated star
被当作敌人 As enemies
还是神呢 Or as gods
我们通过最近的历史可以领略 We know from recent history how primitive people react
原始人类第一次接触现代技术 会有何反应 to their first confrontation with modern technology
在第二次世界大战期间 During the 2nd World War
美国士兵被派到南太平洋的某些孤岛 American soldiers were sent to certain isolated islands
去建造机场 in the South Pacific to build airfields
和军事设施 and military installations
战争结束后 他们回家了 When the war was over,they went home
此时非常奇怪的事情发生了 and a very curious thing happened
这些岛屿的原住民 The natives of these islands
与外界隔绝 isolated from the outside world
几乎生活在石器时代 lived virtually in the Stone Age
直到美国人来了又走 until the Americans came and went
不久之后 当地人开始用稻草和竹子 Very soon afterwards,the natives began making straw
搭建类似飞机的崇拜物 and bamboo fetishes resembling airplanes
就在岛上摆放着 crude landing surfaces on their islands
以吸引访客归来 to tempt the visitors back
陌生人带着神话般的宝藏 The strangers had brought fabulous treasure
从天而降 with them from the skies
还有工具 奇妙的武器 Tools, fantastic weapons
他们做梦也想不到的会飞的机器 Sky machines they'd never dreamed of
除了神 还有谁可以拥有如此高超的知识 What else, but gods,could possess such superior knowledge
他们不事渔猎 They didn't hunt or fish
他们也不喜欢食物 Yet,they never liked food
他们来自天堂 They came from heaven
他们必须是神 They had to be gods
他们必须被引回来 They must be lured back
当地人献上火热的祭品 The natives offered fiery sacrifices
他们日夜扫视天空 They scan the heavens, day and night
观察和等待 watching and waiting
因而 岛民有了新的宗教 However, the islanders had a new religion
一个新的邪教 籍由 A new cult was born from the encounter
原始人与那些来自高度发达 between a primitive people and visitors
技术优越的社会的访客的接触 产生了 from a highly-developed technically-superior society
俄罗斯学者卡赞采夫和萨采夫认为 The Russian scholars Kazantsev and Saitsew
一切宗教之肇始 无不如是 proposed that all religions began in just this manner
在墨西哥和南美洲 In Mexico and South America
从埃及到印度 from Egypt to India
世界各地都有寓言 传说 throughout the world,people have fables, legends
甚至宗教 是以 and even religions which center around the visits
外星宇航员的造访为中心 from foreign astronauts
当然 他们不称其为宇航员 而是神 Of course,they don't call them astronauts,but gods
他们乘坐神奇的飞车来到地球 who came to Earth in miraculous sky vehicles
我们很容易觉得这些纯是幻想 We could easily accept these tales as mere fantasy
它们没有被广泛报道吗 were they not reported among people the world over
在文献记录中 神一样的访客比比皆是 Written accounts of god-like visitors abound
西藏的《甘珠尔》即为一例 For example, in the books of the Tibetan Kanchur
《甘珠尔》是超过千卷的 The Kanchur consists of over 1,000 volumes
藏传佛教经典 containing the holy texts of Lamaism
这些文本的密码 The secret code of these texts
是人类最复杂的设计 is the most complex devised by men
只有百分之一的《甘珠尔》被破译 Only one 100th of the Kanchur has been deciphered
通过这些译本 我们可以读到 其中 The resulting texts,which we can now read
充满了众神行天的记载 are full of references to gods appearing in the sky
神乘坐发光的珍珠 of the luminous pearls and transparent spheres
和透明的球体 that these gods lived in
一旦这些文本被完全破译 Once these books have been completely deciphered
它们一定会揭示更多 they are bound to yield much more information
关于这些神秘的太空访客的信息 about these mysterious space visitors
在印度 对《摩诃婆罗多》的智慧 In India,the wisdom of the Mahabharata
非常尊重 commands great respect
它是民族史诗 深受人们的喜爱 It is the national epic poem,much loved by the people
它的八万节经文已有六千年的历史 Its 80,000 verses are 6,000 years old
这是《摩诃婆罗多》其中一段 This is a part of the Mahabharata
我们也看到了 in which we also come upon stupefying evidence
令人震惊的诸神降临地球的证据 of gods come to Earth
这些诗反复提到 维玛纳 The poems speak repeatedly of "vimanas"
这些是飞车 These are vehicles which fly to great heights
靠水银和向上的强力气流升空 by means of mercury and powerful,upward wind currents
卡赞采夫博士根据《摩诃婆罗多》中的描述 This reconstruction of vimana was made by Dr. Kazantsev
制作了维玛纳的模拟图 according to the description in the Mahabharata
作者目睹了 The author of this passage witnessed
今天我们称其为爆炸的现象 what today would be called a blastoff
"比玛坐着他的维玛纳飞走了 "The Bhima flew away in his vimana
巨大的光束 像太阳一样闪耀 on a gigantic beam of light,which shone as the Sun
声音有如雷暴的雷声" and whose noise was like the thunder of a thunderstorm."
进一步寻找外星访客的行动 Our search for further evidence of visitors
把我们带到了伊拉克首都巴格达 from other worlds takes us to Baghdad, the capital of Iraq
两河流域的土地 The land between two rivers
博物馆为我们提供了许多与过去的联系 The museum here provides us with many a link to the past
包括至少有五千年之久的 including accounts written on clay tablets
泥板上的记载 at least 5,000 years ago
他们的石质书页上讲述着 神秘生物 Their stony pages tell of mysterious creatures
来到地球时产生的阵阵烟雾和噪音 which came to Earth in bursts of smoke and noise
在世纪之交 At the turn of the century
发现了十几块泥板 a dozen clay tablets were found
上面刻有楔形文字的 upon which the Gilgamesh was engraved
《吉尔伽美什》 in cuneiform characters
这些是《吉尔伽美什》的残片 These are fragments of the Gilgamesh
一个史诗形式的创世故事 A creation story in the form of an epic poem
刻在此处 is inscribed here
它与《旧约·创世记》有着惊人的相似之处 It bears a striking resemblance to the book of Genesi
然而 作者吉尔伽美什比圣经写作者 Yet the authors of the Gilgamesh lived 2,000 years
要早两千年 before the men who wrote the Bible
史诗英雄吉尔伽美什是半神半人 Gilgamesh, the hero of the epic,was part-god,part-man
第七片描述了一些惊人的旅行 The seventh tablet described some amazing travels
恩奇都 就是这位 Enkidu,a friend of ours here
给了我们第一份 gives us the first eyewitness report
石器时代的太空航行报告 of a space voyage in the stone chronicle
"在太空战车升空后12小时" "After rising skyward in a space chariot for 12 hours"
他写道 he records
"俯视大地 "Gaze down upon the land
你看到了什么 What do you see
看看大海 Look upon the seas
他们看起来像什么 What do they look like
地球看起来像一碗肉汤 And the Earth looked like a meal pap
大海就像一个水槽" and the sea like a water trough"
美国月球人使用了非常相似的词 The American Moon men used very much the same words
描述他们从高空看地球的印象 to describe their impressions of Earth from high in space.
我们飞越死海 We are flying over the Dead Sea
在昆兰附近的这些令人生畏的岩层中 Among these forbidding rock formations near Qumran
两个寻找迷路山羊的年轻牧羊人 two young shepherds looking for lost goats
有了很特别的发现 found something quite different
1947年 在这些洞穴中 In these caves,in 1947
他们挖到了所谓的《死海古卷》 they came upon the so-called "Dead Sea Scrolls"
他们被刻在大约两千年前的皮革上 They were inscribed on leather about 2,000 years ago
昆兰文本也谈到了奇怪的飞车 The Qumran texts also speak of strange sky vehicles
以及乘之而来的天堂之子 and of the sons of heaven who came to Earth in them
他们的到来和离开 Their arrival and departure
伴随着烟雾和火云 were accompanied by clouds of smoke and fire
这些古老的资料 解密部分 Hardly more than a thousandth of these ancient sources
不超过千分之一 has given up its secrets
破译的学者太少了 There are too few scholars at work deciphering
堆积如山的羊皮纸 树皮或泥板 the mountains of parchment,bark or clay documents
只能在博物馆和图书馆里蒙尘 gathering dust in museums and libraries
此外 被破译的这很小部分需要小心求证 Moreover,what little has been decoded calls for careful
以确定什么是其包含的可验证的事实 study to determine just what verifiable facts they contain.
我们不应该再认为这些 We should no longer permit ourselves to dismiss accounts
飞车和旅行之神的记载纯粹出于想象 of sky vehicles and traveling deities as sheer imagination
那些南太平洋岛人可作为一种教训 There is a lesson in the reaction of those
当他们第一次经历 south sea islanders to their first experience
白种人和飞机时 with white men and airplanes
如果他们有写作技巧 If they'd known how to write
他们的印象记肯定读起来相当精彩 surely their impressions would make fantastic reading
我们应当明智地揭示 We would be wise to discover what truths
隐藏在远古的传说和神话背后的真相 lie behind the legends and myths of ancient times
并认真对待它们 to take them seriously
一百年前 一个人就是这么做的 One man did just that,100 years ago
1864年 在小亚细亚海岸 Here on the shores of Asia minor,in 1864
一个男人来寻找传说中的特洛伊城 a man came searching for the legendary city of Troy
他在这座山下找到了它 He found it beneath this hill
海因里希·施利曼下定决心 Heinrich Schliemann had made up his mind to take the tales
依照荷马的《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》按图索骥 of Homer,the Iliad and the Odyssey literally
"荒谬" 同时代的一个智者说 "What utter nonsense,"said the wise men of his day
"荷马的故事在基督之前的八个世纪写就 "Homer's stories were written eight centuries before Christ
尽管它们很迷人 但我们都知道它们只是诗歌" and charming as they are,we all know they are only poetry."
但海因里希·施利曼对 But Heinrich Schliemann had faith
盲诗人史实方面的描写有信心 in the factual historical side of the blind bard's accounts
最终 他的信心得到了回报 and at last,his faith was rewarded
在诗句的引领下 他发现了古特洛伊城 Following the poet's lead,he found ancient Troy
想象一下他送妻子首饰的快乐吧 Imagine his pleasure in giving his wife jewelry
那是他发掘普里阿摩斯的皇家宝库时所得 he had unearthed in Priam's royal treasure house
想象一下他对找到特洛伊的满足感吧 Imagine his satisfaction in locating Troy
那与荷马所说的完全符合 exactly where Homer said it was
施利曼在那个时代遭到了嘲笑 Schliemann was ridiculed in his own day
今天 他被认为是有史以来 Today, he is considered one of the greatest archeologists
最伟大的考古学家之一 of all times
他的例子之后 Following his example
让我们再来看一个伟大的文字记录 let's take another great document literally
《圣经》说 "当时 耶和华将硫磺与火 从天上耶和华那里 The Bible says,"then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah
降与所多玛和蛾摩拉"(创世记19-24) brimstone and fire"
究竟发生了什么 What actually happened
肯定的 摩西五经之首(即创世记)的第19章 Certainly the 19th chapter of the first book of Moses
描述了一个戏剧性的事件 describes a dramatic event
上帝派他的使者警告罗得的家人 God sent his messengers to warn Lot's family
即将发生的灾难 of impending disaster
天使告诉罗得 "逃命吧 The angels told Lot,"flee for your life
不可回头看 也不可在平原站住 Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley
要往山上逃跑 免得你被剿灭"(创世记19-17) Flee to the hills,lest you be consumed"
今天 我们知道 对于放射性 Today, of course, we know that a mountain offers protection
山可以当作保护 from radioactivity
使者坚持 The messengers were insistent
他要立即离开这座城市 that he leave the city immediately
我们会问 是否 We might well wonder if they had foreknowledge
他们预知了一次原子爆炸 of an atomic explosion
有一件事是肯定的 One thing is certain
繁荣的城市所多玛与蛾摩拉 The flourishing cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were leveled
一次打击之后即被夷为平地 laid waste at a single stroke
传递的力量如此具毁灭性 The kind of power to deliver such a devastating blow
在那个年代不是人类能掌握的技术 was not in man's hands in those days
灾难报告这样结尾 The report of the catastrophe ends
"…全地观看 不料 "then he looked down and beheld, and lo
那地方烟气上腾 如同烧窑一般"(创世记19-28) the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace"
西奈山脉的何烈山 Mount Horeb in Sinai range
海拔超过6500英尺 rises more than 6,500 feet above sea level
摩西在此接受了十诫 Here,Moses received the 10 commandments
上帝也在此给了他 Here also,the Lord gave him the blueprints
约柜的设计蓝图 for the Ark of the Covenant
在摩西五经第二卷(出埃及记)第25章中 In chapter 25 of the second Book of Moses
他对制造这个惊人的物件 he gives directions for the erection
给出了指导 of this amazing structure
"要用皂荚木作一柜 "And they shall make an ark of acacia wood
长二肘半 Two cubits and a half shall be its length
宽一肘半 A cubit and a half its breadth
高一肘半 and a cubit and a half its height
要里外包上 And you shall overlay it with pure gold
精金 within and without shall you overlay it
四围镶上金牙边"(出埃及记25-10) And you shall make upon it a molding of gold round about"
上帝非常精确地 The Lord was extremely precise
给出约柜的建造规格 about the building of the Ark
他警告任何人都不得靠近它 He warned that no one should come near the structure
这表示凡人接近的危险 而他自己 It represented a mortal danger, and though he himself
会和摩西通过盖板说话 would speak to Moses from the covering plate
他是隐身的 he could not be seen
摩西甚至要提供特殊的鞋子和衣服 Moses was even to provide special shoes and clothing
保护他的工人 to protect his workmen
鞋子和衣服将适当地绝缘 Shoes and clothing that would insulate them properly
如果我们现在要按照摩西的规格 If we were to build a replica of the Ark today
做一个方舟的复制品 我们会做出一个电容器 according to Moses'instructions,we would have a condenser
可以充电数百伏 charged with several hundred volts
盖子的一侧是负极 One side of the plates carrying a negative charge
另一侧是正极 the other,a positive one
《圣经》说约柜上方布满了 The Bible says the Ark bristled
火花与闪电 就像这些老画画的一样 with sparks and bright flashes,as in these old paintings
的确 当摩西竖立约柜时 Indeed,when Moses had erected the Ark
上帝会通过它对他说话 the Lord would speak to him through it
难道金鞘是一种扬声器 Could the gold sheath had been a form of loudspeaker
为了远距离再现上帝的声音吗 reproducing the Lord's voice from afar
1961年 一群明尼苏达大学的学生 In 1961, a group of Minnesota college students
严格按照摩西的指示 took Moses seriously enough to construct an ark
建造了一个约柜 according to his directions
然而 他们的导师不得不将其销毁 Their instructor,however,had to have the model destroyed
因为它产生的高电荷 because of the dangerously high
非常危险 electrical charge it developed
从二十世纪看 《圣经》充满了 Viewed from the 20th century,the Bible is full
惊人的记载 就像《摩西五经》中一样 of astonishing accounts,like that of Moses
同样令人惊讶的是以利亚的升天 No less surprising is the Ascension of Elijah
这当然是一部最纯粹的幻想编年史 除非 a chronicle of the purest fantasy,unless of course,
故事的讲述者 the storyteller was eyewitness
亲眼目睹了一个史无前例的真实事件 to an unprecedented actual event
火马牵引的火的战车 A fiery chariot drawn by flaming horses
从天而降 要带走以利亚 came from heaven to take Elijah away
《圣经》中有另一个耸人听闻的事件 Another sensational occurrence in the book of books
许多艺术家重现了《以西结书》中的 Many an artist has recreated the story
这个故事 of Ezekiel the Prophet
"当三十年四月… "In the 30th year, in the fourth month
初五日…天就开了 on the fifth day of the month,the heavens were opened
我观看 见狂风从北方刮来 As I looked,behold,a stormy wind came out of the north
随着有一朵包括闪烁火的大云 and a great cloud with brightness round about it
周围有光辉 and fire flashing forth continually
从其中的火内发出好像光耀的精金 And in the midst of the fire,as it were,gleaming bronze.
又从其中显出四个… And from the midst of it came the likeness
活物的形像来 他们的形状是这样 of living creatures and this was their appearance
有人的形像 各有四个脸面 They had the form of men,but each had four faces
四个翅膀…" and each of them had four wings"
"…至于脸的形象 "As for the likeness of their faces
前面各有人的脸 右面各有狮子的脸 each had the face of a man in front,a lion on the right,
左面各有牛的脸 后面各有鹰的脸" an ox on the left and an eagle at the back"
以西结描述的是天外来客 Would Ezekiel have described the landing of visitors
以非常不同的方式降落吗 from space in very different terms
"我正观看活物的时候 见活物的脸旁 "Now, as I looked, I saw a wheel upon the Earth
各有一轮在地上 beside the living creatures,one for each of them
轮的作法好像水苍玉 It was like the gleaming of a chrysolite
四轮都是一个样式 形状和作法 their construction, being as it were
好像轮中套轮 a wheel within a wheel
轮行走的时候 向四方都能直行 When they went, they went in any of their four directions
并不掉转 without turning as they went
至于轮辋 高而可畏 The four wheels had the rims and they had spokes
四个轮辋周围满有眼睛" and their rims were full of eyes round about"
这些是宇宙飞船的引擎吗 Were these the engines of a space ship
"活物行走的时候 我听见翅膀的响声… "And when they went,I heard the sound of their wings
…像全能者的声音 like the thunder of the Almighty
也像军队哄嚷的声音"(以西结书 第一个异象:神的宝座) A sound of tumult,like the sound of a host"
先知目睹了令人眼花缭乱的景象 The prophet had witnessed a dazzling sight
它与多级火箭的发射 How closely it resembles the launching
何其相似啊 of a multi-stage rocket
甚至发动机发射时产生的尖叫 even to the scream of its engines at blastoff
这些图画不言自明 These pictures speak for themselves
这就是早期的圣经插图画家 This is how early biblical illustrators
表现应许天使的形式 represented the angels of promise
一个有金属腿和着陆盘的生物 A creature with metal legs and landing disks
是不是很眼熟 Doesn't that look familiar
仔细看右图 Look carefully at the right side of this picture
这是德卡尼修道院 This is the monastery of Decani
位于南斯拉夫南方的宁静的乡村 in the peaceful countryside of Southern Yugoslavia
教堂装饰着 The church was decorated with frescoes
在14世纪中叶的壁画 in the middle of the 14th century
最近有人问这个问题 Recently,the question has been asked
德卡尼壁画画的是宇宙飞船吗 do the frescoes of Decani represent spaceships
是的 它们看起来确实有点像宇宙飞船 Yes, they do look a bit like spaceships
在第一艘船上 我们看到一个人坐着 In the first ship,we see a man seated
他的手放在变速杆上 his hand on a stick shift
他肯定是在观察第二艘宇宙飞船 He is definitely observing the second spaceship
请注意空气动力学形式 Please note the aerodynamic form
喷气清晰可见 Jets are clearly seen
观众在抬手保护他们的脸 The spectators are protecting their faces with their hands
他们显然很害怕 They are obviously terrified
无法解释这些奇妙图画的起源 There is no explanation for the origin
或目的 or purpose of these fantastic pictures
同样情形发生在史前岩画 nor for the prehistoric rock paintings
它们是在意大利布雷西亚附近的瓦尔卡莫尼卡发现的 discovered at Valcamonica near Brescia in Italy
描绘了奇怪的神明 There are portrayals of strange gods
他们穿着笨重的原始工作服 in bulky primitive overalls
头盔似乎带有天线 Their helmets seem to carry antenna
伊斯坦布尔 金角湾上的城市 Istanbul.The city on the golden horn
这里矗立着托普卡匹王宫 Here stands the palace of Topkapi
这里保存着一组奇怪的地图 A curious set of maps are kept here which were found
它是由土耳其海军上将皮里雷斯 in the Orient by the Turkish Admiral Piri Reis
18世纪时在东方发现的 during the 18th century
这些地图中最早的日期可回溯至公元一世纪 The oldest of these maps dates back to the first century AD
它们很可能是更古老的地图的抄本 They are most likely copies of still earlier maps
船与动物的装饰显示较晚的日期 The ornamentation of ships and animals is of a later date
这是其中的一幅 Here is one of them
它显示了欧洲和非洲的一部分 It shows part of Europe and Africa
以及中美洲和南美洲 as well as Central and South America
让我们想象一下 自己是身处太空舱的宇航员 Let us imagine ourselves astronauts in a space capsule
在开罗上空的轨道上 in orbit high above Cairo
我们会看到地球各大陆的配置 We would see the Earth in this configuration of continents.
皮里雷斯地图最神奇之处在于 The most amazing thing about the maps of Piri Reis
它们精确地展示了在开罗上空唯一一点 is that they show exactly what we would see
我们能看到的景象 from only one point in space, high above Cairo
另一件了不起的事是这张地图显示了 Another remarkable thing,this map show the region
很大程度上至今仍未被探索的地区 which is still largely unexplored
南极洲 The Antarctic
事实上 确定存在南极洲大陆 In fact,the existence of Antarctica,as a continent
仅仅是19世纪的事情 was only established in the 19th century
但这张地图的历史可以追溯到1532年 However,this map dates from 1532
我们只能得出结论 这些古老的图表 We can only conclude that these ancient charts
反映了在远离地球的地方 represent what was seen by someone
某人看到的情景 at a great distance from the Earth itself
开罗 尼罗河上一座拥有三百万人口的城市 Cairo, a city of three million inhabitants on the Nile
距开罗12英里的地方是吉萨 12 miles from Cairo is Giza
坐落着人类已知最神秘的建筑 The site of the most enigmatic structures known to mankind
金字塔 The pyramids
胡夫金字塔地基的面积 The area of the base of the Pyramid of Cheops
大约57万平方英尺 is about 570,000 square feet
可以容纳一个拥有500户住宅的 A small town of 500 dwellings
小镇 could be erected in that space
初建成时 金字塔高477英尺 At its completion,the pyramid was 477 feet high
现在它只减少了32英尺 It has lost only 32 feet of its original height
通道通向其内部 Passages lead to its interior
金字塔的总重量 The total weight of the pyramid
是650万吨 is six and a half million tons
大约是六万五千辆火车头的重量 Roughly the weight of 65,000 locomotives
230万块石块 2,300,000 stone blocks
堆砌成了世界第七大奇迹 were used to build the seventh wonder of the world
每块重达两吨半 each of which weighs a crushing two and a half tons
这些石块是从尼罗河对岸的 These stone masses were transported from a quarry
马卡坦山的采石场运来的 in the Maqattan mountains on the far banks of the Nile
那时人类既无起重机 也无卡车 at a time when men had neither cranes,nor trucks
怎么运的 How
当然 是通过滚木 On wooden rollers,of course
不太可能 Not very likely
从古至今 该地区只有椰枣树 In those days, as today,only date palms grew in the region
这是一种软木 其果实 A softwood whose fruit
是工匠饮食的必要组成部分 was a necessary part of the workers'diet
工匠们是如何成功拖运这些巨大的石块 and how could workmen succeed in hauling these colossal
到400英尺以上的高度的呢 stone blocks to a height of over 400 feet
让我们试试下面的数字 Let's try the following figures on for size
两万名工匠 运输和安装经周密规划 20,000 workmen,closely scheduled to haul and install
每天垒10块石头 需要664年 10 blocks a day would need 664 years
或超过30代 可以建造一座金字塔 or more than 30 generations to build one pyramid
因此 它不可能是某位法老在位期间 Thus,it couldn't have been built
给自己建的陵墓 in the time of one Pharaoh for his tomb
如果将胡夫金字塔的高度 If you multiply height of the pyramid of Cheops
乘以十亿 几乎完全等于 by one billion, it equals almost exactly the distance
从地球到太阳的距离 from the Earth to the Sun
仅仅是巧合吗 A mere coincidence
贯穿胡夫金字塔中心的经线 The longitude,which runs through the center
恰好等分了地球的大陆和海洋 of the pyramid of Cheops,divides continents and oceans
仅仅是巧合吗 into two equal halves,just mere coincidence
16世纪末 At the end of the 16th century
荷兰数学家鲁道夫计算了圆周率Π the Dutch mathematician Ludolph arrived at the figure pi
通过它可以确定一个圆的周长 by which one can determine the circumference of a circle
如果我们将胡夫金字塔地基的周长 If we divide the perimeter of the base
除以其高度的两倍 of the pyramid of Cheops by twice the height
我们精确地得到了Π we get exactly the figure pi
这个鲁道夫四千年后才发现的数字 which Ludolph only found 4,000 years late
仍然仅仅是巧合吗 Could it still be mere coincidence
几乎不可能将金字塔结构中 It's almost impossible to brush off
体现出的大量数学和天文学价值 the vast body of mathematical and astronomical values
视为巧合 embodied in the pyramid's construction as just coincidence
这是舍夫伦的金字塔 This is the pyramid of Chefren
1967年 一批学者用雷达 In 1967,a team of scholars scanned the interior
扫描了金字塔内部 of this pyramid with radar
希望找到隐藏的空间 但没有结果 in hopes of finding hidden cavities, but without results
他们的努力对揭示建筑的秘密毫无意义 Their efforts shed no light on its construction
埃及古谚云 An old Egyptian proverb says
"世界惧怕岁月 岁月只惧怕金字塔" "the world fears time,but time fears only the pyramids"
狮身人面像 The Sphinx
谜语的象征 Symbol of the riddle
永恒之谜 The eternal enigma
65英尺高 65 feet high
237英尺长 237 feet long
建筑年代不详 Its age is unknown
卢克索附近的尼罗河谷 The Nile Valley near Luxor
沙漠中间的一个肥沃的狭长地带 A narrow strip of fertile land in the middle of the desert
在我们面前 绵延着帝王谷 Before us stretches the Valley of the Kings
这个山谷是法老时代的 This valley was a royal burial ground
皇家墓地 at the time of the pharaohs
像洞穴般的入口后面 是陡峭的阶梯 Behind these cave-like entrances are steep stairs
以及通往石窟(墓室)的无尽的弯曲通道 and endless crooked passages leading to the stone crypts
塞索斯二世国王的墓室 The crypt of King Sethos II
深入地下300英尺 is 300 feet deep in the interior
墓室的长方形柱子 His burial chamber its rectangular columns
和装饰浮雕是直接从岩石中雕刻出来的 and decorative reliefs,are carved directly out of the rock
像在其他墓中一样 我们在这里寻找迷人的壁画 Here,as in other tombs,we find fascinating wall paintings.
它们是在缺乏照明的情况下画的 They were achieved without daylight
因为穹顶没有一丝烟灰 Because the dome shows no trace of soot
没有使用火炬或油灯 no torches or oil lamps were used
学者们推测 这些古代艺术家 Scholars have suggested that these ancient artists
是通过复杂的镜子系统 brought sunlight into the crypts
将阳光带入地下室 by means of a complicated system of mirror
早期的银镜 The silver mirrors of that early period
仅能反射四成的光线 reflected only 40% of the light
这就是为什么他们需要这么多镜子 which is why they needed so many mirrors
这些生物充满象征性 These creatures all bear symbolic reference
阐述与天堂的关系 to their relationship with the heavens
与宇宙的关系 With the Universe
图坦卡蒙墓在诸法老墓中规模最小 The tomb of Tutankhamun is the smallest
但最为著名 but most famous of these royal grave sites
多年来 其他墓都被洗劫一空 All the others had been looted in the course of centuries
唯有它 完好无缺 保存至今 Only this one retained its treasures until modern times
十九岁的神王安息于此 A 19-year-old god king was laid to rest here
等待从死亡中重生 to await the day of his resurrection from the dead
至少在三千年前 这具木乃伊经过防腐处理 This mummy was embalmed at least 3,000 years ago
等待从死亡中复活 prepared for a physical rising from the dead
木乃伊均被被安置于事先设计好的 Mummies were consigned to the most secure resting places
最安全的休息场所 that could be designed
直到最近 防腐还被认为是 Until recently,embalming was thought to be
一种宗教习俗 a religious custom
有人提出 防腐术是一种 The theory has been advanced that embalming
对某种天外来客的物理保存技术的 was a skillful imitation of a physical conservation method
巧妙模仿 employed by extraterrestrial visitors
但埃及人的尝试并未成功 attempted unsuccessfully by the Egyptians
神秘的拉美西斯二世雕像 The enigmatic statue of Ramses II
毁于兵燹 Wars have destroyed it
它有三千年的历史 3,000 years old
它从一块岩石上凿出 重1200吨 hewn from a single rock weighing 1,200 tons
是从370英里外的马卡坦采石场运来的 was brought from the quarries of Maqattan,370 miles away
没人知道是怎么运的 No one knows how
孟农像 The Memnon Colossi
3500年历史 3,500 years old
52英尺高 52 feet high
由坚固的砂岩雕刻而成 Carved from solid sandstone
每尊重达一千吨 Each weighing 1,000 tons
他们也来自市场和马卡坦山脉 They too came from the market and Maqattan mountains
没人知道是怎么运的 No one knows how
有一个当今的例子 There is a present day example
是一个需要移动 of the enormous engineering effort
类似石雕的巨大工程 required to move similar stone sculpture
移动距离只有600英尺 for a distance of only 600 feet
尼罗河畔的阿布辛贝神庙及其纪念碑 The temple Abu Simbel and its monuments
要为建设阿斯旺大坝让路 on the banks of the Nile had to make way for the Aswan Dam
这座神庙建成后的三千年 3,000 years after the building of this temple
来自上百个国家的一群能工巧匠 it took a pool of talented resources from over 100 nations
解决其搬迁问题 to solve the problems of its relocation
采用了最新的设备 The latest equipment was employed
起重机的承载 Cranes, whose bearing strength was reinforced
通过液压机加强 by hydraulic presses
进行了三十万次精确测量 300,000 precise measurements were taken
因为阿布辛贝的雕像不得不被锯成碎片 because the statues of Abu Simbel had to be sawn to pieces
一项耗时三年的任务 A task that took three years
现代工程面临着 Modern engineering was faced with an undertaking
前所未有的规模 of unprecedented dimensions
缺少技术的埃及人 在三十个世纪之前 How did the Egyptians tackle the same problems
怎样解决同样的问题呢 without these techniques,30 centuries earlier
卢克索方尖碑 The Obelisk of Luxor
3500年历史 3,500 years old
85英尺高 85 feet high
由一块红色花岗岩雕刻而成 Carved from one piece of red granite
从18英里外的阿斯旺运来 Brought from Aswan, 185 miles away
卡纳克方尖碑 高96英尺 The Obelisk of Karnak rises 96 feet
埃及最高的柱子 making it the tallest column in Egypt
它重400吨 It weighs 400 tons
弃置于阿斯旺的未完工的方尖碑 The unfinished obelisk lying in Aswan
超过135英尺长 Over 135 feet long
它是世界上最大的 it is the largest in the world
达到惊人的1200吨的 1,200 staggering tons
红色花岗岩材质 of red granite
世界上没有起重机可以抬起它 更不用说移动了 No crane in the world could lift it, much less move it
著名的南方之石 The famous Stone of the South
是人类切割和搬运的最大石块 is the largest block cut and carried by man.
它重达2000吨 It weighs 2,000 tons
要运到黎巴嫩的巴尔贝克(神庙) It was destined for Baalbek in Lebanon
距离贝鲁特两个小时车程 two hours by car from Beirut
在历史上 神庙是由希腊人和罗马人 The temples were built by the Greeks and Romans
修建的 in historical times
但它们被建在一个精心构建的 but they were erected on a skillfully-constructed
由世界上开采和铺设的 foundation, composed of the largest stone masses
最大石块构成的基础之上 ever trimmed and positioned on Earth
其中最大的长65英尺 The largest of these blocks are 65 feet long
高15英尺 宽12英尺 15 feet high and over 12 feet wide
重近2000吨 and weigh almost 2,000 tons
这个露台很古老 神庙建于其上 This terrace was ancient when the temples were built on it
考古学家至今无法解释它的用途 Archeologists still have no explanation for the terrace
也无法想象其构件如何运输 nor for the transport of its components
俄罗斯科学家阿格莱斯特 The Russian research scientist Agrest
认为它是一个天外来客的 submits that it served as a launching pad
发射台 for travelers from outer space
我们的下一站在西南方很远 Our next stop is far to the southwest
贾内特绿洲位于撒哈拉沙漠中部 The Oasis of Djanet in the middle the Sahara
位于阿尔及尔以南1200英里 1,200 miles south of Algiers
从贾内特我们可以到达塔西里高原 From Djanet, we can reach the plateau of Tassili
此处地貌类似于月球表面 The terrain resembles the lunar surface
红色岩石裸露于沙漠中 Bare reddish outcroppings of rock in a sandy desert
撒哈拉沙漠曾经是肥沃的地区 The Sahara was once a fertile area
一万五千年前 15,000 years ago
这里是世界人口最稠密的角落 it was the most densely populated corner of the world
山被太阳和风暴吞噬 The mountain faces were eaten away by sun and storm
冰冷的北风穿过 The icy northern wind lashes through the canyons
灼热的沙漠之上6500英尺的峡谷 6,500 feet above the scorching desert floor
在塔西里发现了数以千计的壁画 Thousands of wall drawings were found here in Tassili
最早的画于基督之前八千至一万年 The earliest were done eight to 10,000 years before Christ
的新石器时代 during the neolithic period
艺术家是猎人和农民 The artists were hunters and farmers
他们的主题大同小异 Their themes are always the same
动物 Animals
猎人 Hunters
以及 And...
这个圆头圆脑的是个什么怪物 What is this strange creature with the bulbous head
他脚下的这个戴着今天的 Who are the figures at his feet
潜水员或宇航员款式的头盔的人物是谁 Helmeted,in the fashion of today's divers or astronauts
没有眼睛 没有鼻子 没有嘴巴 No eyes, no nose, no mouth
只有圆形的窥视孔 Only peep holes round little apertures
一个身体似乎毫不费力地漂浮在空中 A body that seems to be floating effortlessly in space
这是在太空吗 In space
问题是我们的史前艺术家 The puzzle here is that our prehistoric artists
刻画他们周围的人与动物 represented the men and the animals around them
所采用的形状和比例都很写实 with great fidelity as to shape and proportion
只有些气球头的生物 Only,these balloon-headed creatures
似乎不成比例 seem to be disproportionate
为什么 Why
难道是画的人没看清楚 Could it be that the artists didn't see them clearly
还是观察时间不够长 or long enough
六天来 我们持续追踪 For six days,we track onward
睡在沙漠的熠熠星空之下 sleeping beneath the sparkling starry desert sky
我们充满好奇地尽量探索 We are curious to learn as much as we can
我们周围迷人的世界 over the fascinating world around us
这是太空舱的草图吗 Is this the sketch of a space module
这块附带着某个分离形象的圆盘是什么东西 What is this lumpy disc with a figure separating from it
他们又出现了 And there they are again
虚幻的漂浮生物 头部模糊不清 Unreal floating creatures,their heads indistinct
他们穿着浅色服装 wearing light-colored garb
如此穿戴是为了太空旅行吗 Could they be dressed for space travel
可以肯定的是 还有其他解释 To be sure,there are other explanations
我们将最后的饮用水洒在岩石上 The last of our drinking water is sprinkled on the rocks
以便显出古老的图画 to bring out the ancient drawings
可以看清楚有着奇怪头饰的形象 Now we can make out the figures with their odd headgear
带衬垫接口的工作服 The coveralls with padded joints
一万年后 轮廓已变得模糊 After 10,000 years,the contours have become blurred
我们煞费苦心地复制它们以供参考 We painstakingly copy them for reference
不放过每一个细节 down to the last detail
法国考古学家亨利·卢特 Henry Lut,the French archeologist
发现了一个19英尺高的巨人图像 found the image of a 19 foot giant
在这处岩坡掩映的陡峭的石壁上 on this steep curved wall,protected by a Rocky ledge
他将其命名为火星大神 He called him the Great God Mars
亨利·卢特没见过宇航员 Henry Lut didn't know about astronauts
但我们见过 But we do
我们脚下是最黑暗的非洲 Beneath us lies darkest Africa
南罗得西亚的丛林 The bushlands of Southern Rhodesia
最终 我们来到津巴布韦遗址 And at last,the ruins of Zimbabwe
被遗忘的昔日鬼城 a forgotten ghost town of the past
建造者是谁 无人知晓 No one knows who the builders were
这座神庙是由砖形花岗岩块建成 The temple was constructed of brick-shaped granite blocks
每块都一模一样 好像是工厂生产 all exactly alike,as if produced in a factory
两万吨相同的建筑石料 20,000 tons of identical building stones
垒到30余英尺高 They were laid to a height of over 30 feet
形成屹立了数千年的高墙 to form walls which has stood for thousands of years
是什么样的石匠 以惊人完美的手法 What masons trimmed and piled these stones
修整和砌起了这些石头 with such astonishing perfection
是这些草屋围绕着废墟的 Where they the ancestors of these bushmen
丛林人的祖先干吗 whose straw huts surround the ruins
还是来访的某个擅长建筑的种族 A visiting race of master builders
墨西哥 Mexico
众神曾安居乐业的土地 A land where gods were once quite at home
我们参观了国家博物馆 We pay a visit to the Museo Nacional
在这里我们发现了这个巨大的阿兹台克日历石 Here we find this huge Aztec calendar stone
直径超过11英尺 重达24吨 It is more than 11 feet across and weighs 24 tons
它原本是颜色鲜艳的 Originally it was brightly painted
立于太阳神庙之前 and stood before the temple of the Sun God
程式化的符号代表 The stylized symbols express the results
天文观测的结果 of astronomical observations
其精确度是惊人的 the precision of which is astonishing
阿兹台克人用太阳和月亮计年 The Aztecs calculated their year by the Sun and the Moon
他们的一年是365 and came up with a period consisting of 365
又四分之一天 and one-quarter days
没有借助望远镜 他们到达了如此的精确度 They arrived at this exact figure without telescopes
或计算工具 or mathematical instruments
他们的知识是否 Could their knowledge have come
来自外星球呢 from extraterrestrial sources
这件古董并不起眼 This ancient object has little significance
除非是通过习惯了外太空的 unless seen through the eyes of a generation
新一代人的眼睛来看 newly accustomed to the world of outer space
这座山下 藏着 Hidden beneath this hill
另一个世界奇迹 lies yet another wonder of the world
乔卢拉金字塔 The Pyramid of Cholula
如按体积计算 它是最大的人工建筑 by volume,the largest construction made by man
建造花了六个世纪 It took six centuries to build
它底边的尺寸为1000x1170英尺 Its base measures 1,000 by 1,170 feet
高度有178英尺 It is 178 feet high
乔卢拉金字塔的体积 The Pyramid of Cholula has a volume
超过三百万立方码 of over three million cubic yards
相比之下 胡夫金字塔 By comparison, the pyramid of Cheops is smaller
比它还要小五十万立方码 by half a million cubic yards
在16世纪 In the 16th century
西班牙人在上面建了一座教堂 the Spaniards built a church on top of it
系统的挖掘工作始于本世纪 Systematic excavations have only begun in this century
至今已开掘出 12 miles of subterranean passages
12英里的地下通道 have been discovered thus far
它们是干什么用的仍然搞不清 Their purpose remains obscure
金字塔这种形式 The form of the pyramid
广泛分布于彼此分隔遥远的诸文明中 is common to many widely-separated civilizations
它们之间是否存在着一种我们尚不清楚的联系 Could there be a link between them,as yet unknown to us
特奥蒂瓦坎 壮阔的中美洲遗迹 Teotihuacan.A vast expanse of ruins in Central America.
距墨西哥城一小时车程 It lies an hour's drive from Mexico City
海拔6500英尺 at an altitude of 6,500 feet
只有一小部分遗址被发掘 Only a small part of the ruins has been excavated
特奥蒂瓦坎 意为"诸神居住的地方" The name Teotihuacan means"where the gods reside"
众神之城由太阳金字塔主宰 The city of the gods is dominated by the Pyramid of the Sun
它的底边为760x720英尺 Its base measures 760 by 720 feet
高度达216英尺 and rising to a height of 216 feet
它形成了一座小山 it forms a small mountain
重达250万吨 weighing two and a half million tons
特奥蒂瓦坎的建设者为何 The identity of the builders of Teotihuacan
众神居所建于何时 and the age of the structures where the gods reside
笼罩在神秘之中 但有线索 are shrouded in mystery,but there are clues
这些金字塔以南一英里处 A mile to the south of these pyramids
是羽蛇神——带羽毛的大蛇——的神庙 is the temple of Quetzalcoatl,a great feathered serpent
传说他是一个来自星辰的 Legend tells us he was a light-skinned bearded man
浅肤色大胡子男人 who came from the stars
他教给人们法律和艺术 He taught men law, the arts
怎么种玉米和棉花 the cultivation of corn and cotton
他的形象随处可见 His symbol is seen everywhere
蛇的羽毛头 The feathered head of a serpent
当羽蛇神在地球上的使命完成时 When Quetzalcoatl finished his mission on Earth
他回归了晨星 he returned it to the morning star
并承诺再次回到地球 promising to come back to Earth again
图拉遗址距特奥蒂瓦坎约20英里 The ruins of Tula are about 20 miles from Teotihuacan
根据一个古老的神话 According to an old myth
图拉镇 科巴 the towns of Tula,Coba
奇琴伊察和乌斯马尔 Chichen Itza and Uxmal
由悬在天上的梯子相连 were linked by a ladder hung in the sky
这些不朽的雕塑静静地矗立着 These monumental sculptures stand a silent watch
它们是神秘的守护者 guardians of mystery
他们是穿着统一的战士 戴着特别的头盔 They are warriors,dressed alike,wearing unusual helmets
他们在胸前携带某种盒子状的设备 They carry some sort of box-like unit on their chests
工具或控件紧握在他们手中 The tools or controls clasped in their hands
无法识别 are unrecognizable
也许它们是武器 或通讯设备 Perhaps they are weapons or communications equipment
是从遥远的星星带来的 brought from a distant star
从首都飞两小时 A two-hour flight from the capital
是瓦哈卡山谷的阿尔班山 is Monte Alban in the Valley of Oaxaca
此处再次见证了 Another testimony to the brilliance
古老的墨西哥文明的辉煌 of the ancient Mexican civilization
它是如何构思的 How was it conceived
建筑师是谁 Who were its architects?
飞机掠过墨西哥的山脉 Our flight wings over the mountains of Mexico
去往另一处寺庙和金字塔群 to another complex of temples and pyramids
奇琴伊察 Chichen Itza
奇琴伊察是古代玛雅人定居点 Chichen Itza is an ancient Mayan settlement
位于尤卡坦半岛 in the Yucatan peninsula
它是根据占星数据建造的 Its structures were built according to astrological data
玛雅天文台矗立在三层露台上 A Mayan observatory stands on three terraces.
它的形状与现代天文台 Its shape is virtually identical
几乎相同 to that of a modern observatory
仔细看这雕像 Look closely at the statute
一个在小房间里的人 A man, in the confines of a small room
似乎在扳动操纵杆 seems to be operating a lever
他头盔上有奇怪的突起物 There are strange projections on his helmet
类似于天线 resembling antenna
这个金字塔实际上是巨大的石头日历 This pyramid is actually a huge calendar in stone
四个楼梯上的365个台阶中的每一个 Each of the 365 steps on its four stairs
代表一天 represents one day
这是有翼之神库库尔坎 Here we see the winged god, Kukulkan
我们被告知他也来自星星 We are told that he too came from the stars
并最终返回了 and returned to them
取代他的是血腥的战神沙克穆尔 He was supplanted by the bloody warrior god Shakmul
他端着一个托盘 He carried a tray before him
用以盛放供奉的人心 to receive offerings of human hearts
在干旱时 人们被带领朝圣 In times of drought,the people were led in a pilgrimage
前往名为塞诺蒂的圣井 to the sacred well called Cenote
年轻的少女作为牺牲奉献给雨神 Young maidens were sacrificed here to the rain god
被扔进浑浊的深水中 flung into the deep murky waters
没有人能从这口险恶的井里逃脱 There was no escape from this sinister well
这是一个完美的圆形的岩石中的火山口 It is a perfectly-round crater in the rock
它既非自然形成 It couldn't possibly have been formed naturally
又非人工 nor could human hands alone have scooped it out.
它像非常强大的火箭发动机的废气 It resembles a crater made by the exhaust gases
喷出来的一个弹坑 of a very powerful rocket engine
在诸多悬而未决的疑问中 Among the many unanswered questions
玛雅文明启人疑窦 posed by the traces of Mayan culture is the following
基督后600年 600 years after Christ
整个玛雅人都离开了 the entire Mayan population departed
离开城镇 寺庙和金字塔 leaving towns, temples,and pyramids
辛勤劳动的成果亦弃之不顾 the fruits of great labor behind
他们向北迁徙 一切从头开始 and moved northward to start from scratch
然而没有一点战争 瘟疫 饥馑的痕迹 However,there was no trace of war,plague,famine
或突然的气候变化 or sudden climate change at that time
足以导致这一举动 to account for the move
墨西哥有16个城市 There are 16 cities in Mexico
人口超过十万 with a population of more than 100,000
其中之一是梅里达 One of these is Merida
玛雅人的后裔住在这里 The descendants of the Maya live here
他们依然保有源自古玛雅城镇的 still have their own language
自己的语言 derived from the ancient Mayan town
他们也许是拉丁美洲最和平的人民 They are perhaps the most peaceful people in Latin America
如今他们的脸庞仍然拥有令人难以忘怀的美丽 Their faces today still have the haunting beauty
一如他们的祖先刻在石头上的那些 of their ancestors preserved for us in stone
离开梅里达 我们飞越广阔的沼泽地 Leaving Merida,we fly over a vast swampland
到达拉文塔 to arrive at La Venta
我们发现了几十个这样的石像 This is where we find dozens of these stone heads
就在沼泽中间 right in the middle of the swamps
每个重约200吨 Each weighs about 200 tons
方圆80英里内并无采石场 There is no quarry within 80 miles
只有丛林 Only jungle
同样的问题再次涌现 The same question arises again
这些庞然大物 How were these mammoth statues
是如何穿越沼泽地的 carried over the marshy terrain
几天的耽搁之后 Days of delay precede our audience
我们将谒见帕伦克的飞翼之神 with the winged god of Palenque
这位绅士可谓真容难窥 He is not an easy gentleman to see
闷热潮湿 A dome of sweltering humidity
笼罩着帕伦克的原始森林 hangs over the virgin forest of Palenque
通往玛雅圣城的途中 Along our path to the sacred city of the Maya
到处可见牛的尸体 we pass the cadavers of cattle
一群耐心的秃鹰在头顶盘旋 with swarms of patient vultures wheeling overhead.
经过八次拒绝 我们终于得到许可 After eight refusals,we are finally granted official
拍摄这位古老的名人 permission to film with this ancient celebrity
一个封印的坟墓为我们开放短短的半小时 A sealed sepulcher is open to us for a brief half hour
爬上陡峭的台阶 Up a steep flight of stairs
然后进入更令人窒息的 then down into the even more stifling dampness
潮湿的墓室内部 of the interior of the tomb
这就是 首次登上银幕的 And there he is,captured for the first time on film
帕伦克的飞翼之神 The winged god of Palenque
镜头下是如此震撼 What the lens sees is so stunning
我们必须将各个细节单独拍摄 that we must examine the details separately
我们看到一个人坐在舱里 We see a man seated in a capsule
专心地看着什么 intently watching something
他的手像是在操作一些不明所以的控件 His hands seem to be operating some undefinable controls
他的脚踩着踏板 His foot is pressing a pedal
在舱的后部 At the rear of the capsule
我们看到喷气管向后喷出火焰 we see jets trailing flames behind them
这不是典型的宇航员的姿势吗 Isn't this a typical position for an astronaut
正如我们今天所熟知的那样 as we so well know it today
他的服装似乎是工作服 He seems to be dressed for the job
穿着宽腰带的裤子 in trousers with a broad belt
一种夹克 腕部收口很紧 A sort of jacket,tight-fitting at the wrists
像连体工作服 like coveralls
椅子的软垫可以很好地 The chair is well upholstered
缓冲加速度的冲击 to absorb the shock of acceleration
控制组件前方的形象也像宇航员般穿着 (译注:此句反复联系画面及context,殊不可解) A figure before controls,also dressed like an astronaut
另一个拖着火焰的喷气管 Another jet trailing flames
"这个石神" 玛雅人说 "代表库库尔坎 "This stone deity"say the Maya,"represents Kukulkan
他来自星辰 并回到了那里" who came from the stars and returned there"
雨云笼罩下的复活节岛 Easter Island emerges from clouds of smoke and rain
今天 当地人仍然称其岛为"玛塔基特兰基" Today the natives still call their island "Mata Ki Te Rangi"
意思是 "仰望天堂的眼睛" which means"eyes looking up to heaven"
邻近的环礁被称为 The neighboring atoll is called
"鸟人岛" "the Island of the Bird People"
在这里 可见 Here we see them,creatures with human bodies
人身鸟头的生物 and the heads of birds
这些真的是鸟头吗 Are these really birds' heads
或者只是当地人这样看 or do they just seem that way to the natives
它们也可以是配备氧气面罩的头盔 They could also be helmets equipped with oxygen masks
传说在史前时期 Legend has it that in prehistoric times
飞人乘着火焰降临岛上 flying people came to the island amidst fire
这就是岛神玛基玛基 This is Makemake,the god of the Island
今天 大约有2000人住在这里 Today, about 2,000 people live here
从来没有超过4000人过 There were never more than 4,000 natives at one time
所有学者都同意这一点 All scholars agree on this point
这样的话 一个纠结恼人的问题就出现了 This being established,a tangle of vexing questions arises
在总人口中 七成是妇女儿童 Of the total population,70% are women,children
以及老人 or the elderly
而生产食物 多数人口必须是身强力壮的男性 The majority of able-bodied men is needed for the production of food
因此 工人的数量如此之少 Thus,the number of workmen is so small
他们不可能造出 that it would've been impossible for them to create
600多个巨大的石像 the more than 600 gigantic stone figures
遍布全岛各处 found everywhere on the island
石头是如此坚硬 The stone is so hard that repeated hammering
用钢凿反复敲打 连刮痕都很难敲出来 with a steel chisel hardly scratches it
许多巨型石像有65英尺高 Many of these stone colossi stand 65 feet high
重近400吨 and weigh nearly 400 tons
大多数雕塑只是部分暴露于地表 Most of the sculptures are but partly exposed
只有挖掘才能揭示它们的真实大小 Only excavation will reveal their true size
雕像都显得不同寻常 The fingers are all the same unusual type of human
表情一律傲慢而沉默 wearing the same haughty taciturn expression
每尊都像出自同一模具 one after the other,as if cast from the same mold
只有那个托尔·海尔达尔发掘的雕像 Only the statue which was unearthed by Thor Heyerdahl
是个例外 is an exception
它是圆头 跪姿 It has a round head and is kneeling
这是拉诺拉拉库火山口旁边的 This was the stone cutter's workshop
石匠的工场 with the volcanic crater Rano Raraku
在这里雕刻的巨像 The colossi which were carved here
被移到12英里远的地方 were removed to distances of as much as 12 miles
没有奴隶大军作为劳动力 没有滚木 There was no army of slaves for labor,no wood for rollers,
也没有丝毫的痕迹 表明雕塑 nor the slightest traces to suggest that the sculptures
是被拖着横贯全岛的 were dragged across the island
复活节岛的传说 声称石巨人 The legends of Easter Island claim that the stone giants
是在法力的帮助下自己移动的 moved themselves with the help of mana
此种神秘的力量 只有两位祭司可以召唤 a mysterious force which only two priests could invoke
后来 祭司们的法力消失了 and that one day, the priests disappeared with the mana
那就是他们在拉诺拉拉库的采石场的工作 Was that the day their work was completed
终结之日吗 in the quarry of Rano Raraku
或者 这就解释了为什么会剩了一堆未完成的雕像 Or is that why there is an army of unfinished statues
什么是法力 What was mana
是否有来自其他星球的陌生人 Were there strangers from other planets
拥有电磁能量 possessed of electromagnetic powers
他们有能力挑战重力吗 Did they have the ability to defy the laws of gravity?
时至今日 复活节岛具有 To this day,Easter Island exerts
一种异常强大的磁性 an unusually-strong magnetism
1964年法国探险队做出结论 The report of a French expedition in 1964 ends as follows
"鉴于复活节岛存在莫名其妙的磁场 "Since there are inexplicably magnetic forces
和不同寻常的地质现象 and unusual geological phenomenon on Easter Island
不能排除(其中有) one cannot exclude the possibility
外星接触的可能性" of extraterrestrial contacts"
搜索将我们带回到南美洲 库斯科 Our search leads us back to South America, to Cuzco
印加帝国的首都 the capital of the Inca empire
它在秘鲁安第斯山脉 海拔11380英尺 11,380 feet above sea level in the Peruvian Andes
据说 这座城市是由 The city was founded by messengers
太阳神的信使建立的 of the Sun God, we are told
与这些狭窄街道接壤的墙壁 The walls bordering these narrow streets
从印加时代即开始 date from the time of the Incas
时光流逝 当年石匠的作品上 The passage of centuries has had little effect
了无痕迹 on the stone cutters' artistry
这些经过专业修整的石头被精确放置 These expertly-trimmed stones were set in place
不使用砂浆 刀刃也无法插入缝隙 without mortar,yet a knife blade will not enter the joints
特别是一块12面的石块 加工得无比精确 A peculiarity is the 12-sided block,so precisely executed
只有最现代化的设备 that only the most modern equipment
可以做得如此完美 could equal its perfection
或者 一个惊人的比较 Or a startling comparison
以同样的方式建造的这堵墙 This wall,constructed in the same manner
在完全不同的地方被发现 is found in quite a different spot
那就是西面3000英里 太平洋上的复活节岛 3,000 miles to the west in the Pacific on Easter Island
难道复活节岛与安第斯山脉的石匠 Where the masons of Easter Island and those of the Andes
是师从同一个建筑大师吗 apprenticed to the same master builders
高踞库斯科之上有令人印象深刻的废墟 High above Cuzco are the impressive ruins
萨克赛瓦曼要塞 of the fortress of Sacsayhuaman
印加人用来保护其王城 used by the Incas to protect their royal city
就像拼图的碎片 Like pieces of a puzzle
仿佛它们像火柴盒一样轻 as though they were light as matchboxes
巨石形成一堵1200英尺长的墙 huge boulders form a wall 1,200 feet long
在印加时代之前 堡垒已存在很久了 The fortress existed long before the Incas' time
当西班牙征服者皮萨罗 When Pizarro,the Spanish conquistador
询问是谁建的时 inquired about the builders
他被告知是一个浅肤色 大胡子 he was told they were a light-skinned,bearded
红头发的种族 redheaded race of men
维拉科查斯的后裔 The descendants of Viracochas
这里一些石头重达500吨 Some of these stones weigh 500 tons
印第安人来到皮萨克市场 The Indians come to the market of Pisac
回归神圣的印加人的山谷 The return to the sacred valley of the Incas
乌鲁班巴谷 the Valley of the Urubamba
海拔8450英尺之处 8,450 feet above sea level
坐落着马丘比丘 lies Machu Picchu
据说 城堡也是由 The Citadel also said to have been built
神圣的浅肤色 赤褐色头发的种族建成的 by the divine race of light-skinned, auburn-haired
维拉科查的后裔 descendants of Viracochas
座落在King's Cordillera脚下的拉巴斯 At the foot of the King's Cordillera,La Paz,
玻利维亚首都 the capital of Bolivia
海拔12350英尺 At an altitude of 12,350 feet
世界上最高的首都 the highest capital in the world
的的喀喀湖 海拔13000英尺 Lake Titicaca,13,000 feet above sea level
是世界上最高的湖泊 is the highest lake in the world
岸边就是印第安人市场 On its banks is the Indian market
一股神秘的气息笼罩着拥有无数秘密的湖 An air of mystery hangs over the lake of 1,000 secrets
沿岸可以发现古老文化的遗迹 The traces of an ancient culture are found along its shores
我们从传说中得知 大地母亲欧哈娜 We learn from legend that Ohana, the Earth mother
乘坐金色战车降落于此 landed here in a golden chariot
她给人民带来了艺术与工艺的知识 She brought wisdom and knowledge of the arts and crafts
然后回归了星辰 to the people,then returned to the stars
蒂华纳科是为纪念她而建造的 Tiahuanaco was built in her honor
它是世界上最古老的宗教建筑 The oldest religious edifice in the world
现在 蒂华纳科距的的喀喀湖岸 Tiahuanaco stands 18 miles
18英里 from the shores of Lake Titicaca today
但据说 曾几何时 湖水拍打到了 but it is said that at one time the lake lapped
神庙跟前 at the very foot of the temple
如图所示 This is how it was
下面是小港口 上面的圣湖 The small ports below,the sacred lake above
湖床早已干涸 The lake bed dried up long ago
它仍然被废墟包围 It is still surrounded by the ruins
那曾经是巨大的建筑物 of once enormous buildings
水真的退了 It is true that the waters recede
每年大约退去八分之一英寸 about one-eighth of an inch per year
那么 如果现在距离湖岸18英里 However, if the shore is now 18 miles away
从水拍打神庙到现在 经过了多少岁月 how long has it been since the lake washed around the temple
当然早在有记载的历史之前 Certainly long before recorded history
这个消失的时代给人印象最深的遗迹 The most impressive relic of this vanished era
是太阳之门 is the Door of the Sun
从一块单一的岩石凿出 重达10吨 Chiseled from a single rock,it weighs 10 tons
三行程式化的图案 Three rows of stylized figures
围绕着一个高深莫测的生物 flank an inscrutable creature
另一个来自星星的神吗 Another god come from the stars
过去的奥秘 The mysteries of the past
表现在各大洲 manifest themselves on all continents
在崎岖的澳大利亚西北部丘陵地带 In the rough hilly country of Northwest Australia
有几十幅岩画 there are scores of rock paintings
可以追溯到很久以前 which dates back far in time
这图像大概包含了史前人类 Drawings which are probably the earliest messages
最初的信息 from prehistoric man
此草图代表万吉娜 This sketch represents Wandjina
万吉娜是传奇的银河女神 Wandjina was the legendary goddess of the Milky Way
她也自天而降 教导地上的孩子 She too came from heaven to instruct the children of Earth.
当然有模型 甚至可以说就一个模型 Surely there were models,one is tempted to say one model
因为这些神灵遍布各大洲 for these deities found on all continents
在澳大利亚 In Australia
在美洲 In America
在非洲 In Africa
在欧洲 In Europe
在亚洲 In Asia
这是日本著名的土偶之一 This is one of the famous Dogus of Japan
这些偶发现于本州的岛上 These figurines were found on the island of Honshu
它们至少有5000年的历史 They are at least 5,000 years old
俄国收藏家和专家卡赞采夫 Kazantsev,the Russian collector and expert
给了我们他的解释 gave us his explanation of them
"在我看来 这些雕像代表 "In my opinion,these figures represent
在地球上看到的外星生物 astro beings seen on Earth
他们的密封头盔 Their sealed helmets are equipped
带呼吸设备 with a breathing apparatus
通过窄缝眼镜看东西 Vision is afforded by glasses with narrow slits
像爱斯基摩人戴的 用以避免雪盲症 like the Eskimos wear to avoid snow blindness
大概他们在家乡星球上 Probably they were accustomed to weaker light
习惯了较弱的光线 on their home planet
他们的宇航服似乎膨胀了 The cosmic clothing they wear seems inflated
似乎是为了对地球上较高的气压 as though to compensate
予以补偿 for the higher atmospheric pressure on Earth
他们的手 一点儿也不像人类的手 Their hands are not at all like human hands
如同机械爪一样 but like mechanical claws
如果你觉得他们是某种神像 If you suggest they were about images of gods
我会问你 其创作者怎么可以 I would ask you how their creators could have portrayed
在没有模特的情形之下 their technical accessories so accurately
如此精确地再现其技术配件" without having seen a model"
卡赞采夫又提出了一点 Kazantsev made one further point
他提请我们注意 He drew our attention to the amazing similarity
土偶 between the Dogu figurines
和火星大神壁画之间惊人的相似性 and the wall painting of the Great God Mars
那可是在地球的另一半发现的 found halfway across the world
一件设计得不对称的珠宝 The asymmetrical design of a piece of jewelry
在墨西哥大祭司的坟墓中发现 found in the tomb of a Mexican high priest
也可以导出惊人的结论 can also be interpreted with startling results
如果我们叠加一个现代集成电路就可以了 If we superimpose a modern integral circuit on it
我们认为的纯粹的设计 呈现出一个新的维度 what we thought of as pure design takes on a new dimension
这是墨西哥装饰的另一个例子 Another example of Mexican ornamentation
经比较 becomes,on completion
非常像现代的机械爪 very much like a modern mechanical space claw
我们再次回到伊拉克巴格达的博物馆 Once again in Iraq, the museum in Baghdad
我们找到了这些小粘土杯 它们可以追溯到基督时代 we find these small clay cups dating to the time of Christ
或者更古老些 They may be even older
狭窄的颈部插着一个小铜管 A small copper tube was introduced into the narrow neck
由不同金属的合金制成的棒 A rod made of an alloy of different metals
被插入管中 was inserted in the tube
灌入盐酸时 When filled with hydrochloric acid
该设备可以产生电流 the device produces an electric current
这无疑是一个原始电池 This was no doubt a primitive electric cell
然而 伏打伯爵发明电池 Yet, Count Volta invented the electric cell
要到1500年后了 1,500 years later
同一文化时期的另一个技术奇迹 Another technical wonder from the same period in culture
可以在大英博物馆看到 can be seen in the British Museum
这是一个抛光镜片 它只可能使用精密的切割和抛光工具 It is a polished lens, which could only be produced today
在现代制造出来 with precision cutting and polishing tools
抛光镜片直到16世纪 Polished lenses weren't executed in Europe
才在欧洲问世 而这个在近东发现的 before the 16th century,whereas this one was found
已有两千年的历史 in the near-east and is 2,000 years old
在莫斯科宇航员纪念碑旁边 In Moscow, near the monument to the astronauts
我们与瓦切斯拉夫·萨采夫博士交谈 we spoke with Dr.Wiatscheslav Saitsew
他来自科学院 of the Academy of Science
他提请我们注意两处史前遗迹 He called our attention to two prehistoric relics
用我们目前的历史知识 which simply cannot be explained
根本无法解释 by our present knowledge of history
第一个是野牛的头骨 The first is the skull of a bison
它四万年前游荡在西伯利亚苔原上 which roamed the Siberian Tundra 40,000 years ago
他是被子弹击中的 He was shot by a bullet
证据就是弹孔 The proof is the hole
弹道专家已经证实 Ballistics experts have established that
它只可能是被高速弹丸击穿的 it could only have been pierced by a high-speed projectile
这只野兽被击杀时还活着 and that the beast was alive when killed
那是四万年开的一枪 A shot,fired 40,000 years ago
萨采夫博士的第二个例子同样令人震惊 Dr. Saitsew's second example is equally startling
在乌兹别克斯坦的费尔干纳以外 靠近中国边境 Outside of Fergana,in Uzbekistan,near the Chinese border
苏联学者发现了一幅岩画 Soviet scholars found a rock painting
他们精心复制了下来 which they carefully copied
"对这幅史前图画 "We must look and look again to grasp the significance
我们反复观看 仔细揣摩 of this prehistoric drawing
一个戴着宇航员头饰的生物 A creature wearing the head gear of an astronaut
头盔牢靠地固定在太空服上 The helmet,well attached to his space suit
有管子和呼吸器 Connecting tubes,breathing apparatus
这是太空旅行者的服饰 The trappings of a space voyager
一艘宇宙飞船悬浮在空中 And suspended in the void,a spaceship
形状像两个碟子 一个扣在另一个之上" shaped like two saucers,one atop the other"
不仅在乌兹别克斯坦 在世界各地 Not only in Uzbekistan,but around the world
我们已看过许多图画上的飞行器和飞行生物 we've seen pictures of flying machines and flying creatures
在世界各地 巨物默默地发出疑问 Around the world, giants pose their silent questions
走遍全球 我们饱览了建筑奇迹 And around the world,we've seen architectural marvels
它们为祭祀从天而降的众神而建造 raised in honor of the gods,which came from the skies
这个飞行器 七千年前 This flying machine was painted on a rock wall in Japan
画在日本的岩壁上 7,000 years ago
这个古老飞行器的金质袖珍复制品 This tiny golden replica of an ancient flying machine
它来自哥伦比亚 已有1000多年的历史 is Colombian,over 1,000 years old
它在风洞中进行了测试 It was tested in a wind tunnel
其空气动力学特性与现代飞机相似 The aerodynamics tiling resembles that of a modern aircraft
我们认为 不可能有更令人信服的证据 We thought it impossible that more compelling evidence for
证明外星人访问了我们的星球 the visit of extraterrestrial beings to our planet existed
但确实还有 but they do
从太平洋上 From the Pacific Ocean
我们接近秘鲁南部海岸 we approached the coast of Southern Peru
我们面前是皮斯科湾 Before us is the Bay of Pisco
在那里 为我们指路的 There,pointing the way
是一个300英尺高的是三叉戟 明显是某种标志 is a Trident, 300 feet high,obviously a signal
这标志代表什么呢 A signal for whom
我们再次接近它 We approach it once more
这个标志 两千年来指往内陆的方向 This sign has shown the way to the interior of the country for 2,000 years
要去哪里呢 Shown the way to what
让我们跟随它去看看 Let's follow it and see
飞过远古文明的遗迹 Passing over the ruins of ancient civilizations
终于我们看到了 at last we see before us
神秘的纳斯卡平原 the mysterious plane of Nazca
线条扑面而来 Lines running toward us
这线条在地面上没有任何意义 Lines which would mean nothing from the ground
长长的犁沟切入干燥的土壤 Long furrows cut into the parched soil
科学家们认为 它们至少有两千年的历史了 Cut there at least 2,000 years ago, scientists agree
但它们真的没有任何意义吗 But do they really mean nothing
若从高处 例如一架飞机上看 From a great height,from an aircraft,for instance
它们就变得清晰了 they fall into focus
我们看到一只蜘蛛 We see a spider
一只鹰 An eagle
一只孔雀 A peacock
还有一只蜂鸟 And a hummingbird
哪一个都不可能从地面识别 None of which can be recognized from the ground
因为没有观察点 At no observation point
附近没有可登临俯瞰平原的山峰 no mountain nearby overlooking the plane
巨画一定是出自 The giant drawings must've been made
从天而降的人之手 for someone arriving by air
这些线条在地面看同样毫无意义 These other lines make no sense from the ground, either
它们笔直如箭 Straight as arrows
形成巨大的几何图形 One huge geometric puzzle
时而平行 时而相交 Some parallel,some intersecting
没头没尾 Starting nowhere and ending nowhere
毫无疑问 There's no doubt
它们是着陆场 They are landing fields
纳斯卡平原是一个废弃的大型机场 The plain of Nazca is a gigantic abandoned airport
这些是占星术符号吗 Could these be astrological symbols
这些迹象仅从高处可见 These indications are only visible from a great height
它们在引导谁 或者它们是道路 Who could have followed them,or were they roads
不知通向何处的道路 戛然而止 Roads which go nowhere,which suddenly stop
如果它是一个机场 谁在那里降落 Yet,if it was an airfield,who was to land there
这些图形能回答我们的问题吗 Do these figures answer our questions
地球是否被来自遥远的星球的众神访问过 Was Earth visited by gods from distant planets
众神是宇航员吗 Were the gods astronauts
我们积累了大量的证据 We've accumulated a great deal of evidence to that effect
它们遍布全世界 around the world
我们可能仍然怀疑这个结论 We may still doubt the conclusion
但我们不敢忽视证据 but we dare not ignore the evidence
只要这些古老的谜团仍未解开 For as long as such ancient mysteries remain unexplained
我们就还有疑问 our questions are valid ones
众神是宇航员吗 Were the gods astronauts
是否 曾几何时 Do you suppose that once upon a time...
曾几何时 曾几何时 Once upon a time... Once upon a time...
翻译:bbqi (圣经文字为中国基督教三自版本)