（巴黎圣母院大火）
（“WHAT IS CIVILISATION?” asked Kenneth Clark 50 years ago in the seminal BBC series on the subject. “I don ’t know, and I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it, and I’m looking at it now.”）我們無法準(zhǔn)確定義文明，但它出現(xiàn)時(shí)，我們就會(huì)知道這是。
? ? ? 【對(duì)建筑物的關(guān)心超過對(duì)人類生命的關(guān)心看起來是不人道的（南非洪水奪去1000人的生命）。事實(shí)上，巴黎圣母院大火能夠大范圍地引發(fā)人們的悲痛情緒，是更加深刻的人道表現(xiàn)（以21世紀(jì)特有的方式）?！?b>（承上啟下）/////////////
? ? ? ? 經(jīng)濟(jì)全球化伴隨著文化全球化，人們可以漫游世界各地，感受各樣的美和歷史。（“People wander the world in search not just of jobs and security but also of beauty and history.Familiarity breeds affection. A building on whose sunny steps you have rested, in front of which you have taken a selfie with your loved one, becomes a warm part of your memories and thus of yourself.”）因?yàn)槭煜ぃ詯勰?。這就解釋了為什么這場(chǎng)災(zāi)難顫動(dòng)了中國(guó)社交軟件微信，而在印度，似乎沒有多少人關(guān)心這條新聞。（印度每年去西方的游客的數(shù)量和中國(guó)相比就像涓涓細(xì)流與洪水之差。）
? ? 【（“This visual age has endowed beauty with new power, and social media have turned great works of art into superstars.”）時(shí)間和媒體賦予藝術(shù)品更強(qiáng)大的力量和魅力。只有極其少數(shù)的能成為享譽(yù)全球的文化標(biāo)志。（“Yet the emotions the sight aroused were less about the building itself than about what losing it might mean”）但是除了藝術(shù)品本身，它具有的意義才是牽動(dòng)人類情緒的根源?！?b>（承接）/////////////
Binds the present to the past.
? ? （“Nobody could look up into that vaulted ceiling without wondering at the cumulative genius of the thousands of anonymous craftsmen who, over a century and a half, realised a vision so grand in its structural ambition and so delicate in its hand-chiselled detail. Its survival through 850 years of political turbulence—through war, revolution and Nazi occupation—binds the present to the past.”）看到它人們聯(lián)想到成千上萬卓絕的工匠構(gòu)建了這樣結(jié)構(gòu)宏偉，細(xì)節(jié)精巧的建筑。它歷經(jīng)850年的沉浮-戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，革命，納粹占領(lǐng)，它連接了歷史和現(xiàn)實(shí)。
The fire also binds people to each other.
? ? ? ? 這場(chǎng)災(zāi)難就是證明，它讓所有人感同身受，它展現(xiàn)了人類精神團(tuán)結(jié)一致的一面。? ? ? ? （“When nationalism is a rising threat, shared sadness makes borders suddenly irrelevant. When politics is polarised, a love of culture has the power to unite.”）
