前所未闻的

If they could not see the Winter Palace with their own eyes, they could dream about it--as if in the gloaming they saw a breathtaking masterpiece of art as they had never known before--as if there above the horizon of European civilization was towering the silhouette of Asian civilization.

如果他们不能目睹圆明园的丰姿，那么他们也能在梦幻中身临其境：他们仿佛在日冥之中见到一件前所未闻而又令人叹为观止的艺术杰作，宛若在欧洲文明的大地上巍然展现出一幅亚洲文明的剪影。

There were said to be too many circles to be the work of a few "hoaxers"(but this assumed that each circle took many hours to make), or that circles appeared in well-watched crops, or that circle creation was accompanied by unearthly noises (when these sounds were played back, even I recognized the nocturnal song of the grasshopper warbler).

他们说，世上庄稼圈太多了，不可能全是一小撮「恶作剧的人」干的（但是这个说法得假定每个圈都要花很多时间才做得出来）。或者，那些圈子会出现在戒备森严的田里。或者，圈圈形成的时候，有人听见了前所未闻的噪音（从那些噪音的录音带上，连我都听得出那是黑斑蝗莺在唱歌）。

That a small body of men like the troops of Liu Po-cheng should have entered a region already given over to the national enemy, have seized and eliminated bandits that were terrorizing the countryside, have established governments where there were none - that they should have, instead of fighting for their very existence, increased their forces ten and fifteen fold, and have crowned the whole effort by gaining control of nearly all the countryside beyond the cities - that this should have been done, not to a wastrel warlord in the wane of his fortunes, but to a proud and mighty foreign invader at the very height of his power, in the very hour of his victory, when almost all the rest of China was giving way before him - that all this should have been done by a mere handful of peasants and intellectuals who had been born from two rifles is a thing almost too extravagant for the pages of history.

刘伯承率领为数不多的小部队，居然敢于深入到已经沦陷于民族大敌手中的地区，剿灭了危害乡里的土匪，在没有政府的地方建立了政府。他们非但未被消灭，反而把自己的力量扩大了十至十五倍。最后，他们成功地控制了除城市以外的几乎全部农村。他们的对手并非一些没落的昏庸军阀，而是胜利在握、骄横不可一世、几乎把整个中国踩在脚下的外来侵略者。而他们自身，只不过是靠两条步枪起家的一小股农民和知识分子。这样惊天动地的业绩，实在是历史上前所未闻，然而却是千真万确的。但是，正由于共产党势力如此惊人地发展起来，由于他们对日军交通线的勇敢袭击，不久就给他们带来了巨大的因难。

It is indeed its barrenness and inactiveness in our past emotions that make them particularly refreshing, grand and magnificent.

它的目的指向创造出前所未闻的或从未被重视过的感受，这与我们长期持有的正确的价值观和政治性之间保持了一定距离。

According to Plato in Phaedrus when Hermes, or Theut, the alleged inventor of writing, presented his invention to the Pharaoh Thamus, the Pharaoh praised such an unheard of technique supposed to allow human beings to remember what they would otherwise forget.

据柏拉图在《斐德罗篇》所述，赫尔墨斯，或叫透特（译注：透特系埃及神话中的月神，掌魔法、智慧和写作，&赫尔墨斯&是希腊人对透特一词的希腊化改写），传说中书写的发明者，向法老塞穆斯展示了他的发明，法老赞扬了这种可让人类记住善忘之事的前所未闻的技术。

It announces itself quite boldly: the first sound you hear is a painfully high-pitched whine of feedback, but then Tom Herman's postmodern Chuck Berry riffing kicks off the brilliant "Non-Alignment Pact," and you soon realize that this is punk rock unlike any you've ever heard.

但这张唱片至今仍是艺术朋克的经典作品之一，其中发出了大胆的宣言：你听到的第一声就是尖利刺耳的回授号哭，而后Tom Herma以后现代Chuck Berry式回复段开启了辉煌的一曲&Non-Alignment Pact&，你会很快意识到这是一种你前所未闻的朋克摇滚。

One day, when we had a smooth sea and moderate wind, two of my wearied countrymen who were chained together, preferring death to such a life of misery, somehow made through the nettings and jumped into the sea; immediately, another quite dejected fellow, who, on account of his illness, was suffered to be out of irons, also followed their example; and I believe many more would very soon have done the same, if they had not been prevented by the ship's crew, who were instantly alarmed.

紧接着，又一个绝望的伙伴，由于生病没有戴镣铐，也效仿了他们。我相信，要不是立即警觉起来的船员们加以阻止，更多人将做出同样的事情。我们之中那些最活跃的人被立即赶下甲板。船上的人为了停船引发了巨大的嘈杂和混乱，是我前所未闻的。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失