IT ALL began with a set of Venetian blinds.

这一切要从一套威尼斯百叶窗帘说起。

When the Venetian warships finally arrived, laden with men and materials, they were forced to simply turn around and sail for home.

即使威尼斯载满人力和物资的战船最终到埗，都好回头航行返国。

They're mobile storm surge gates that rise to separate the Venetian lagoon from the sea.

它们是移动式风暴潮闸门，闸门升起后，威尼斯泻湖将会与大海隔开。

The Venetian gazette fit all the characteristics that I just listed, except for one.

《威尼斯公报》符合我刚才列出的所有特，有一个例外。

He designed this lake with Venetian gondolas in mind.

他在设计这个湖时就想到了威尼斯的贡多拉。

Marco Polo, the famed Venetian explorer, thought cloves came from China and nutmeg from Java.

著名的威尼斯探险家马可·波罗认为丁香来自中国，肉豆蔻来自爪哇。

And we had the first person to break the color barrier in the Venetian room where an entertainer of color would be able to stay at the same place where they performed.

我们有第一个人打破了种族隔离，在威尼斯房间，一位有色人种的演可以住在他们演的地方。

" I think, " said Monsieur Lheureux to the chemist, who was passing to his place, " that they ought to have put up two Venetian masts with something rather severe and rich for ornaments; it would have been a very pretty effect" .

" 我认为，" 勒合先生碰到回座位去的药剂师，就搭话说，" 我们应该竖两根威尼斯旗杆，挂上一些庄严肃穆、富丽堂皇的东西，就像时新的服饰用品一样，那才好看呢！"

Head uphill to the three restored 16th-century Venetian fortresses – St John, St Michael and Barone – or hike the three-mile trail along St Anthony's Channel to the Unesco-listed ruins of St Nicholas fortress.

上山参观三座经过修复的16世纪威尼斯堡垒——圣约翰、圣迈克尔和巴隆，或圣安东尼海峡徒步三英里，前往被联合国教科文组织列入名录的圣尼古拉斯堡垒遗址。

Pathetically the Emperor John The V was reduced in 1159 into making a national fundraising tour of Western Europe, which ended with him being thrown into a Venetian debtors prison.

可悲的是，1159年约翰五世不得不向西欧游说，指望为国库筹到一些资金，结果却被关进了威尼斯债务监狱。

The university was under the supervision of the Independent Venetian Republic which insisted upon the right of its scholars to pursue their scientific studies without interference from the Inquisition.

学校由威尼斯共和国管理，该国主张学进行科学研究不受宗教法庭干涉的权利。

You don't have to be a guest to experience a cruise in a Venetian gondola, and nowhere in Asia are there more luxury shops concentrated in one place than here.

您无需成为宾客即可体验威尼斯贡多拉游船，而且亚洲没有哪个地方的奢侈品商店比这里集中得更多。

Modern mirrors were invented in the 1500, when Venetian craftsmen, started coating clear even panes of glass, with a thin layer of tin and mercury mixed together.

现代的镜子是在 1500 年发明的，当时威尼斯工匠开始在透明的玻璃板上涂上一层薄薄的锡和汞。

The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs.

母亲理好染色绸连衣裙的皱褶，照了照墙上的威尼斯大镜，这才踏她那双日鞋，劲头十足地登上铺地毯的楼梯。

The most important thing to know about Venetian Carnival is how to navigate the city because as you can see behind me, it's full of people.

关于威尼斯狂欢节，最重要的就是要知道如何在城市里穿行，因为如你所见，我身后到处都是人。

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's office said other ships that are " considered sustainable" to the Venetian environment can continue to stop in Venice.

意大利总理马里奥·德拉吉的办公室示，其他被认为对威尼斯环境可持续的船可以继续在威尼斯停靠。

She rallied, however, on drinking a glass of water which I quietly poured out for her from a Venetian carafe upon the side-table.

我轻轻地从放在旁边桌上的一个威尼斯式的水瓶里倒了一杯水给她喝，她方才恢复过来。

And when I came to see the boat, I was just, just very impressed by an authentic Venetian gondola in New York City.

当我来看这艘船的时候，我对纽约市正宗的威尼斯贡多拉印象非常深刻。

In September 1797 Napoleon Bonaparte's troops stripped a huge 16th-century painting by Paolo Veronese from the wall of a Venetian monastery.

1797年9月，拿破仑·波拿巴的军队从威尼斯一座修道院的墙上夺走了一幅由保罗·委罗内塞创作的16世纪巨幅油画。

The Venetian gazette was a precursor to the modern newspaper.

《威尼斯公报》是现代报纸的先驱。