索多玛再现-英语听力

[00:00.30] [00:00.40]The early clerk population are fast pouring into the city
早期的职员们迅速涌进城市 [00:04.34]middle-aged men whose salaries
这些中年人的工资水平 [00:06.66]have by no means increased in the same proportion as their families
远远赶不上他们家庭的需求 [00:10.89]plod steadily along, apparently with no object in view
虽然没有明确目标 但也在踏实工作 [00:15.58]but the counting house, knowing by sight almost everybody they meet or overtake
除了养家糊口 别无他想 [00:21.55]For they have seen them every morning, Sunday excepted
除了礼拜天每天早上他们都会擦身而过 [00:25.33]during the last 20 years but speaking to no-one
但二十年过去了 却始终没有说过一句话 [00:33.01](A resemblance of Sodomy or the last day)
(恍如索多玛再现 有又如置身末日审判) [00:38.73](Sodomy索多玛：《圣经》中的罪恶之地) [00:42.66]On the October 16th 1834
1834年10月16日 [00:46.21]the Houses of Parliament burned to the ground
议会大楼在火光中轰然崩塌 [00:50.39]Once again, it was as though the day of judgement for the city was at hand
伦敦仿佛再度置身末日审判 [00:57.07]Among the astonished crowd was a Cockney artist named Joseph Mallord William Turner
惊恐的人群里包括一位伦敦的本土艺术家 约瑟夫·马洛·威廉·特纳 [01:04.50]