时间:2019-01-29 作者:英语课 分类:世界小史


英语课

 All other peoples prayed to many gods–you remember Isis and Osiris, Baal and Astarte.


所有其他的民族全都向许多的神祈祷——你还记得伊西斯和俄西里斯,巴尔和阿斯塔耳忒吧。
But these herdsmen only prayed to one god, their own special protector and leader.
可是这些牧人只向一个神祈祷,他们自己的特殊的保护者和引导者。
And when they sat beside their camp fires in the evening, and sang songs about their deeds and their battles, they sang of his deeds and his battles.
当晚上他们在篝火边歌唱他们的事迹和战斗,那么他们这是在唱他的事迹和战斗。
Their god, they sang, was better and stronger and more exalted 1 than all the gods of the heathen put together.
他们的神,他们这样唱道:比异教徒们的所有众多的神都更强大、更好、更崇高。
Indeed, they insisted as the years went by, he was the only god there was.
是的,他们坚信随着时间的推移,他就是唯一存在的神。
The One and Only God, Creator of heaven and earth, sun and moon, land and river, plant and beast, and of all mankind as well.
这唯一的神,是天和地,太阳和月亮,陆地和河流,植物和动物,还有人类的创造者。
It was he who raged furiously 2 against them in the storm, but he never abandoned his people.
是他会在雷雨中可怕地向他们震怒,但是当埃及人压迫他们以及巴比伦人劫持他们的时候,他终究不会遗弃这个民族。
Not when they were persecuted 3 by the Egyptians, nor when they were carried off by the Babylonians.
不是当他们受到埃及人的迫害,也不是当他们被巴比伦人带走了。
For that was their faith and their pride: they were his people, and he was their God.
因为这是他们的信仰,是他们的骄傲:他们是他的民族,他是他们的神。

adj.(地位等)高的,崇高的;尊贵的,高尚的
  • Their loveliness and holiness in accordance with their exalted station.他们的美丽和圣洁也与他们的崇高地位相称。
  • He received respect because he was a person of exalted rank.他因为是个地位崇高的人而受到尊敬。
adv. 狂怒地, 有力地
  • He lit a cigarette and puffed at it furiously. 他点燃了一支香烟,狂吸了几口。
  • An army of buyers haggles furiously with an army of salesmen. 一大群买主在和卖主拼命地讨价还价。
(尤指宗教或政治信仰的)迫害(~sb. for sth.)( persecute的过去式和过去分词 ); 烦扰,困扰或骚扰某人
  • Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs. 人们因宗教信仰而受迫害的情况贯穿了整个历史。
  • Members of these sects are ruthlessly persecuted and suppressed. 这些教派的成员遭到了残酷的迫害和镇压。
学英语单词
Abū Fulah
accessory gear
acetins
actifs
Adrados
advice-boat
alanineketoacidtransaminase
ampere meter
badly-decomposed
baked clay
Bang Pa Han
brazenface
burr and chip relief
cathode noise
ceiling plan
compiled language
complex adjustment
description language
diary fatigue
differential freight rate agreement
distance range
distressingnesses
distributed function terminal
downbeat
dyspneic respiration
eco-resorts
elastomeric seal
explosive power
exponent transform
flexibility of wood
forgetting error
ginnee
hanafizes
Hatshetsup
heteromorphic homologues
high alkalinity
hole gauge
IASLIC
immunomodulatory
implementation procedures
in transition
input-data strobe
internal and external
Irano-
jennison
labrea
land of promise
large-tailed antshrikes
lead-minings
liquation process
luminous surface
marketing researcher
minor telephone office
mislaird
momentary aspect
Mulgathing
multi-stemmed
multiple measurements
nist-traceable
non-viral
Ordram
pelagophile
pentlandites
phallomere
photosensitization disease
pigpens
plank board
postact
potpourris
predominancy
present serviceability rating
prevalence
primary program operator interface task
proportionated
pulpal wall
raik
re-use of forms
responser speed
ring resonator length
river bed profile
rodmen
Satanizing
scavenging compressor
screw plate
seedling selection
selvedge mark
slap-dab
slavatas
small hole
SNOMED
snow white and the seven dwarfs
steam valve bronze
structure initialization
summer
take no prisoners
tapetum cell
tennist
terezin
Transportation Secretary
traveling-salesman
upbreathing
Vitis quinquangularis