It's never served smart dinner parties, and it would never be carved on top of a major civic building.

你从不会在高级晚宴或是地标建筑上见到它。

And we'll stop first at the Basilica of Maxentius, the last of the great civic buildings built in Rome before Constantine moved the capital.

我们先来到马克森提乌斯大殿，康斯坦丁迁都前在罗马修建的最后一座市政建筑。

For the Romans it was a civic building used mainly for courts, the Christians adopted the building forum because they worshipped inside, so they adopted this preexisting building forum and gave it a new content.

在罗马，它一般是用作法院的市政建筑。基督徒采用了这种建筑形式，因为他们非常崇拜它的内部。所以他们采用了这种已有的建筑形式，并赋予新的内容。