神句
1.All the money would have been worthlessiflegions of craftsmenhadn’t beenwilling to dedicate their skills and often their lives to making this not just another building, but amonument tohuman achievement.
如果不是大批匠人甘于奉献他们的技艺甚至生命，再多的资金也不过是竹篮打水而已。正是他们的奉献，让这座教堂独树一帜，成为了人类成就中的一座丰碑。
2.Certainly no other creature could conceive and create something ofsuch sublime beauty. Case closed? Hardly.
无疑，没有任何其他生物能构思并创造出如此宏伟瑰丽的景观。这就是全部的结论吗？我看未必。
3.Some of the workers maywell have beenveterans of the First Crusade, an expedition to save the Holy Land from the infidel Muslims that waspart religious frenzy, part military adventure, and part social fad.
当中部分工人可能还是第一次十字军东征的老兵。当时他们将穆斯林视为异教徒，于是发起远征，收复穆斯林统治的圣地。这是一场宗教狂热、军事远征，同时也是一股社会潮流。
4.We like to think that our erratic behavior isa thing of the past, that we’ve outgrown the excesses of the Crusades. Butnothing could be further from truth.
我们觉得人类的那些离经叛道只属于历史，残酷近十字军东征的事件已不会再发生。然而事实并非如此。
神词组
1.Remarkable phenomenon
非同寻常的现象
2.Scores of musicians/ an army of people
大量音乐家/一大批人
3.How far we human have comein such a short time
在如此短的时间里，人类已经发展到了何种程度
4.The sight of….Is almost enough tomake a believer of even the most skeptical.
只需一眼，就可以令疑心最重的人皈依信仰
5.Medieval equivalent of the modern effort
在中世纪就等同于如今的...
6.Reshape our destiny
改变人类的命运
7.Set goals/pursue goals
设立目标/追求目标
8.Be ashamed of…
对...感到惭愧
9.Fall for….
为...而倾倒
10.Alternate between…
时而...时而...，在两者之间交替变换
11.Wrestle with sth
与...搏斗
12.Get off the ground
进入太空，离开地球
13.Contradictory drives
自相矛盾的驱动力
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