【BBC紀錄片】凡爾賽宮 第18期:哪里有權利斗爭哪里就有流言蜚語

The court of Versailles could be seen

凡爾賽宮廷猶如

as a cross, perhaps, between

一個十字架 它匯集了

Royal Ascot and the dealing floor of a futures exchange.

皇家提拔與未來奉獻

A combination of a very socially elite group

包括了一個

who already know each other

由早已互相熟識 經(jīng)常交流的

and can interact with each other

精英群體

and at the same time

同時也包括一群

a group of hardened professionals

態(tài)度堅定的學者 他們擁有

who have their own language and their own codes,

自己的說話風格與行為準則

who know how to strike deals,

也知道如何打破合約

and to extract the best possible advantages

如何在特定情況下

from a particular situation.

取得最佳利益

Versailles was the original hotbed of scandal.

凡爾賽原是流言滋生的溫床

The phrase with which everyone began their conversation

每個人說話

was, "On dit"

都以"據(jù)說"開頭

"It's being said." "They're saying this, they're saying that."

"人人都這么說" "他們說這他們說那"

All day, these whispers of rumour would travel about the palace

流言整天在宮中傳遞

and people would send each other little bulletins by sedan chair,

人們坐著轎子傳遞小告示板

to report on what was going on in the different rooms

互相告知各處的動向

and that of course made it a tremendously claustrophobic place to live.

宮中成了幽閉恐懼的住處

You couldn't do anything without everybody knowing about it.

你無法隱藏自己所行之事

It was this extraordinary networking centre.

這里的關系網(wǎng)絡異常復雜

Everyone who was anyone in France, was now at Versailles,

法國的貴族都住進了凡爾賽宮

so to be excluded was disastrous for a French nobleman.

被排斥在外的人則飽受打擊

The worst thing that a courtier could hear from the King

幕僚最不愿聽到的話就是

was, "He's a man I never see."

國王說"我不認識他"

People would spend literally years

人們會花上很多年

trying to hear one word or have a gesture from the King.

爭取得到國王的話語或手勢