【BBC罗马：永恒之城的历史】神圣之城 04

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        Hints:
        Mary
        Pontifex Maximus   古罗马时代的最高祭司
        Magna Mater        "Great Mother“ 众神之母
       
        鉴于这一句有童鞋挑错，所以拿出来说一说。标红的部分是固定用法。
        But the modern, Christian Rome of today, in many ways, is not so far removed from the ancient, pagan Rome of gods and emperors.
        这句话的大意就是：然而，今天现代的基督教城市罗马与古罗马时期由神和君主统治的非基督教城市罗马在许多方面仍相去不远。
        be far removed from sth
        释义：to be very different from sth; to not be connected with sth 不同的；无联系的
        例句：Many of these books are far removed from the reality of children's lives.
Images of Mary on street corners were once pagan shrines devoted to the household gods. Ancient temples have been absorbed into the fabric of Christian churches. And the Pope has a pagan precedent. The ancient Romans had their own high priest, the Pontifex Maximus. Even this procession has echoes of the pagan world.
In 205 BC,  there are stories of the Magna Mater, a foreign goddess, being brought into Rome by boat right up this river, just like this, except it wouldn't have been motorboats. It would have been wooden boats. It wouldn't have been balloons, it would have been incense lamps. But the modern, Christian Rome of today, in many ways, is not so far removed from the ancient, pagan Rome of gods and emperors.
And there's a clue to the origins of Rome's timeless sanctity in its founding myth.