【BBC纪录片】凡尔赛宫 第36期：从来没有人可以一帆风顺
路易战功卓著 爱情道路也一帆风顺
And it made him grow over confident.
这让他变得愈发自负
In a grand personal gesture,
他自以为是地
he agreed to a peace deal with Austria.
与奥地利缔结了和约
One that handed back most of the territory
将手下的将军刚为他掠来的
his generals had just won for him.
大片领土又归还了奥地利
His ministers thought it was a terrible idea,
他的朝臣们认为这很不明智
and told him so.
并如实地向他进谏
The Peace is not a very good peace for France,
和约对法国毫无益处
because France gets absolutely nothing for it,
因为法国不但因参战而欠下累累巨债
except enormous debts from its participation in the war.
而且几乎从中未获得丝毫好处
The French public, having dispensed millions of livres,
这场战争花掉了好几百万里弗
and lost countless men dead,
还牺牲了无数人的生命
could not understand why their king
民众难以理解为何他们的国王
was giving up his conquests.
要将胜利的果实拱手让人
As a result, schoolchildren and fishwives
因此 据说那时的学童和泼妇
were said to be running around in Paris
会在巴黎城中一边四处奔走
with a line, "You're as stupid as the Peace."
一边叫骂着 "你就像那和约一样蠢"
Just as Louis's popularity began to wane,
正当民众对路易的喜爱之情开始减退
his love affair with Madame Pompadour
他与蓬帕杜夫人的婚外情
was also drawing to a close.
也逐渐告一段落
His solution was a private harem
为派遣内心的寂寞
in the town of Versailles,
他开始在凡尔赛镇金屋藏娇
known as the Deer Park.
这就是著名的鹿苑
When Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour
当路易十五和蓬帕杜夫人的
ceased to have a sexual relationship,
性关系不再延续后
Louis XV didn't really want
路易十五也并不情愿
to replace her with another mistress,
让另一位情妇代替她的位置
they got on too well for that,
他们之间的感情很深 没有人能替代
and from now on,
因此从那以后
his sexual appetite was catered for
国王性生活的满足都是依靠
by a series of young women
一位接一位从巴黎
who were brought out from Paris.
被带到鹿苑的年轻女子
Teenage nymphets, uneducated,
她们大多是少女 没接受过教育
often they had no idea who their powerful lover was.
通常都不知道这位有权势的情人是谁
一.grow：v. 增加，生长，变成，种植，逐渐开始
【词义辨析】
1.become，get，grow，turn，go，come
become: 最普通用词，作为连系动词，指从一个状态向另一个状态的变化。
get: 常指某人或某物有意无意地获得引起变化的因素，结果使变成另一状态。
grow: 常指逐渐地变成新状态，强调渐变的过程。
turn: 侧重指变得与原来截然不同，有时含贬义。
go: 作为连系动词，通常与形容词连用，指进入某种状态，从而发生变化，多指不好的状态。
come: 侧重变化的经过或过程，多用于不良情况。
2.sow，plant，grow
sow: 意为“播、撒、播种、种”，其后跟(the)seeds或“植物(结成种状的)”。
It’s time to sow wheat now.
现在该种小麦了。
Don’t sow the seeds of hatred.
请不要撒下仇恨的种子。
plant: 意为“栽、插、移植”，其后跟作物(多为苗状的)。
He plants rice fastest in the village.
他在那个村子里插秧的速度最快。
The garden was planted with Chinese roses.
园子里栽上了月季。
grow: 作及物动词时，意为“种植、培植”，后接宾语(不表明种状还是苗状，强调种植后的栽培及管理过程);作不及物动词时，意为“生长、发育”;作系动词时，意为“变得”。
They can only grow potatoes in the fields.
他们只能在地里种土豆。
It grows up straight and thin.
它长得又直又细。
It began to grow dark.
天渐渐黑了。
【例句用法】
1.She is a good actress, but still needs time to grow into the part she is playing.
她是个好演员，但仍需要时间去熟悉她要扮演的角色。
2.Don't spend so much money doesn't grow on trees, you know.
别花这麽多--钱不是容易挣的。
3.The coat is too big for him now, but he will grow into it.
这上衣他现在穿还太大，等他长大些再穿就合适了。
4.She is growing into a beautiful young woman.
她渐渐出落成美丽的姑娘。
5.She has a hot temper, but you will soon grow to like her.
她脾气躁，但不久你就会喜欢她了。
二.idea：n. 主意，想法，印象，意见，看法，观念，感觉，目标
【词义辨析】
1.idea，concept，conception，thought，notion，impression
idea: 最普通常用词，几乎适用于任何方面的思维活动。
concept: 指从众多实例中通过概括、归纳而形成的对事物本质、全貌及其内部联系的概念或看法。
conception: 通常指个人或一些人所持有的具体概念或念头，也可指概念的形成过程，含一定的想象和感情色彩意味。
thought: 指以推理、思考等智力活动为基础的心理思维活动及其结果。
notion: 指的是一种模糊的，变化莫测的想法，无可靠的基础，未经深思熟虑的观点。
impression: 指外部刺激在思想中所产生的印象。
2.opinion，view,sentiment,idea
opinion: 普通用词，使用广泛，多指初步的或缺证据支持因而不十分肯定的意见或看法。
view: 侧重指个人对较广泛或重大问题所持的看法，常用复数形式。
sentiment: 着重指基于情感而非推理所得出的，已经固定了的看法，常用复数形式。
idea: 普通用词，通常指凭感觉和想象所形成的看法或意见。
【例句用法】
1.That's an idea.
那是个好主意。
2.The idea of the game is to get all your pieces to the other side of the board.
这个游戏的目标是要把所有的棋子全走到棋盘的另一边。
3.It's my idea to hold the party outside the house.
在户外聚会是我的主意。
4.He has some pretty strange political ideas.
他有一些很奇怪的政治信念。
5.You have no idea how worried I was.
你想像不出来我有多么担心。
