to produce this high,powerful voice was the papacy,

却是天主教会
but that is an historical fact.

但这的确是历史事实
Indeed the popes continued to engage

甚至在二十世纪初
and support castrati into the early twentieth century.

教皇还雇佣并支持阉伶
We, in fact, have a recording

事实上我们有最后一位阉伶歌手
made in 1905 of the last castrato to sing in the Papal Chapel,

于1905年在教皇教堂演唱的录音
Alessandro Moreschi.

他叫亚历山德罗·莫雷斯奇
His name is on the board.

他的名字就在黑板上
I will now play a CD of this voice.

我会放张他的唱片
It will sound very unpleasant for two reasons.

有两个原因使其听起来会很不舒服
One, the recording was made in 1905 so it's very old,

第一录音是1905年录制的太老旧
and it has all the surface noise that those old recordings have.

有老唱片的唱针划纹噪声