英語聽力：愛爾蘭的故事

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And this is the great settlement of Clonmacnoise.

As you sweep around this turn in the river Shannon, you get the round towers, the churches and everything. You get the first idea that this is a really substantial monastic foundation.

How did we arrive here at the height of its power, what would we have seen coming around the bend?

Well, if you believe the sources, there were several thousand people live here already, in the 6th and 7th centuries, so you can imagine a pretty dense settlement. There would have been an obvious, substantial farming element. This would have looked a very prosperous economic unit.

And there would have been markets. Some people would have been coming both by land and here on the sea as well on the water. And the whole place would have been a pretty much, abustling, bustling kind of place.

And not just trade, of course, but the whole business setting down in text.

A place like Clonmacnoise would have had this thriving school of people who were coming here not only from other Irish monasteries, but we know people would have been travelling from either England or even from continent Europe.

From that far away?

Oh yeah, we had a reputation of scholars all the way back and certainly it was the place to be in the 7th century. If you wanted higher learning, if you wanted advanced knowledge of the Bible or grammar, or something like that, then you came to Ireland.

Perhaps the greatest bequest of the monastic tradition in Ireland was literary. The monks transcribed the Bible and set down in writing ancient laws, but not only in Latin--they developed a written form of the people’s Celtic tongue. Religious and legal texts were translated into Gaelic by intellectual elite. Ireland has the most abundant, vernacular literature in Europe. One of the greatest examples is the Lebor Gabála érenn, the Book of Invasions, an imagined history of Ireland.”

This extraordinary book is the first written story of Ireland. It purports to tell the story of how the Irish came into being. The tales here come from the 7th century and they would have a profound impact on the way the Irish came to see themselves.

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這是Clonmacnoise的偉大的解決。

當你在Shannon河的這個轉彎時，你會得到圓塔，教堂和一切。你得到的第一個想法，這是一個真正的大修道院基礎。

我們是如何在它的力量的`高度到達這裏，我們在彎道附近會看到什麼?

好吧，如果你相信來源，有幾千人住在這裏已經，在6和7世紀，所以你可以想象一個相當密集的結算。將有一個明顯的，大量的農業元素。這看起來是一個非常繁榮的經濟單位。

而且會有市場。有些人會來到土地和海上以及水上。而整個地方將是一個相當，喧囂，繁華的地方。

而不僅僅是貿易，當然，但整個業務設置在文本。

像Clonmacnoise這樣的地方會有這個繁榮的學校，他們來到這裏不僅來自其他愛爾蘭修道院，但我們知道人們會從英國或甚至從歐洲大陸旅行。

從那個遠?

哦，是的，我們有一個名譽的學者一路回來，肯定是在7世紀的地方。如果你想要高等學習，如果你想要高級的聖經或語法的知識，或類似的東西，那麼你來到愛爾蘭。

也許在愛爾蘭的修道院傳統的最大遺產是文學。僧侶抄寫了聖經，並寫下了古代的法律，但不僅在拉丁語 - 他們發展了一種書面形式的人民的凱爾特語。宗教和法律文本被知識精英翻譯成蓋爾語。愛爾蘭在歐洲有最豐富的本土文學。最偉大的例子之一是LeborGabálaérenn，“入侵的書”，愛爾蘭的想象歷史。

這本非凡的書是愛爾蘭的第一個書面故事。它的目的是講述愛爾蘭如何誕生的故事。這裏的故事來自7世紀，他們將對愛爾蘭人看到自己的方式產生深遠的影響。