时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:白领英语晨读


英语课
Prometheus

Prometheus was a Titan .In the war between Zeus the giants he had stood on the side of the new Olympian gods.Out of the clay he made the first man,to whom Athena gave soul and holy breath.Prometheus spent a lot of time and energy in creating the gift of fire.The fire raised man above all animals .Later,there held a joint 1 meeting of gods and men.The meeting was to decide what part of burnt animals should be given to gods and what to men.Prometheus cut up an ox and divided it into two parts:under the skin he placed the fresh,and under the fat he put the bones,for he knew the selfish Zeus loved fat. Zeus saw through the trick and felt displeased 2 at the Prometheus' favor towards men.So in a masterful way he took away the gift of fire from mankind.However,Prometheus managed to steal fire from heaven and secretly brought it down to men.Flying into an anger at this unjustified act of rebellion,Zeus let the other gods chain Prometheus to a rock on Mountain Caucasus,where a hungry eagle ever tore at his liver 3 which ever grew again.His period of pain was to be thirty-thousand years.Prometheus faced his bitter fate 4 firmly and never lost courage before Zeus.At last Heracles made Prometheus and Zeus restore 5 to friend ship,when Heracles came over in search of the golden apple and killed the eagle and set the friend of mankind free.

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普罗米修斯

普罗米修斯是泰坦巨人之一。在宙斯与巨人的战争中,他站在新的奥林波斯山神一边。他用粘土造出了第一个男人。雅典娜赋予了这个男人灵魂和神圣的生命。普罗米修斯还花费了很多时间和精力创造了火,并将之赠予人类。火使人成为万物之灵。在这之后,举行了第一次神与人的联席会议。这个会议将决定烧烤过的动物的哪一部分该分给神,哪一部分该给人类。普罗米修斯切开一头牛,把它分成两部分:他把肉放在皮下,将骨头放在肥肉下。因为他知道自私的宙斯爱吃肥肉。宙斯看穿了他的把戏。普罗米修斯偏袒人类,这使宙斯感到不快。因此,他专横地把火从人类手中夺走。然而,普罗米修斯设法窃走了天火,偷偷地把它带给人类。宙斯对他这种肆无忌惮的违抗行为大发雷霆。他令其他的山神把普罗米修斯用锁链缚在高加索山脉的一块岩石上。一只饥饿的老鹰天天来啄食他的肝脏,而他的肝脏又总是重新长出来。他的痛苦要持续三万年。而他坚定地面对苦难,从来不在宙斯面前丧失勇气。最后,海格立斯使普罗米修斯与宙斯恢复了他们的友谊,找到了金苹果,杀死了老鹰,因而解救了人类的老朋友。

adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
a.不快的
  • The old man was displeased and darted an angry look at me. 老人不高兴了,瞪了我一眼。
  • He was displeased about the whole affair. 他对整个事情感到很不高兴。
n.肝;肝脏
  • He has a weak liver.他的肝脏不好。
  • The largest organ in the body is the liver.人体最大的器官是肝脏。
n.命运;结局,结果;将来,前景
  • The Titanic met her fate by crashing into a huge iceberg.泰坦尼克号客轮因撞上一个大冰山而沉没。
  • Your future is bound up with the fate of your motherland.你的前途同祖国的命运紧密相联。
vt.把…恢复原状;归还,交还
  • A good rest will restore you to health.好好休息一下可使你恢复健康。
  • His recent success has helped to restore his faith in his own ability.他最近取得的成功使他恢复了对自己能力的信任。
学英语单词
alphaeus
audiofrequency meter
berti
category of vessel
cetoniidaes
closed-loop telemetry system
coinstantanean
compoundness
conformal gravity
conical seat nozzle
cross-arm
crystal loudspeaker
cute
demand quantity
diversiphiles
Eames lounge chair
earth loop
education u.s. copyright act
european swifts
floury potato
Flowery Kingdom
general-purpose control system
Gepatsch, Speicher
Great Budworth
Greec
hanft
hapned
Holy Mother
hopping john
horsetail lichens
imprisonment with suspension of sentence
initial potential flowing
inlaced
intale weight
jetadmins
kachauris
kirkland warbler
kunthianum
labourable
Likma
locatively
magnetically soft ferrite
Malimo machine
matrix graphite
mini rugby
nagyagites
Nazko R.
nebracetam
neuromechanically
Newman algebra
nonontological
North Atlantic Radio-Telephone
nucleates
obligatoriness
oil off
orange leaf disease
oxidation semiconductor
pay full value for sth
peculate
pine siskins
PMSL
policedog
protferriheme
pythmic
radiculomyelopathy
raffles
rarefied hypersonic aerodynamics
rentes
resistivity prospecting
rifampicins
rotary locking spring
Rousseauean
run-time data area
sales-driven philosophy
salinity gradient energy
seismic recorder
semicopes
skin glands
skin sarcoid tumor
slab heating
special bill
Spitskop
squeezing tube
stayes
Stria longitudinalis lateralis
technoerotic
telemechanisms
ten-ton
third stage of labo(u)r
thrombophlebitides
to squeeze out
top-lines
training expense
transinterhemispheric approach
Transjordanian
trasal glands
triphenyl orthoformate
tyre-chain repairing pliers
UNPUB
velocity of wave propagation
Visoderm