希腊神话故事 01
时间：2018-12-06 作者：英语课 分类：希腊神话故事
Pandora’s Box
When the gods created the earth, they made it a perfect place for man. Each of the gods gave man a gift, such as strength, intelligence 1, and skills, and they filled the earth with everthing that man nennded to live happily. Fruit tree grew everywhere, and beautiful flowers gave out a delicious drink called nectar that gave people energy. No people needed to work or hunt, and people never grew old or sick or died.
The only thing that the gods did not give man was fire. This they kept for themselves. They feared that giving man fire would make him as powerful 2 as the gods and would cause him to destroy the many wonderful things that the gods had put on earth.
One day, the Titan named Prometheus stole some fire from heaven and gave it to man. Though man knew that fire was the possession 3 of the gods, they still accepted Prometheus’gift. Zeus was very angry at this and decided 4 to punish man. He called on Hephaestus, the gods of metal and fire, ang asked him to build a woman out of stone. Aphrodire, the goddess of love, modeled for the statue so that it would be beautiful. When it was finished, Athena breathed life into the cold stone and it came alive. Then each of the gods gave the woman a gift. Aphrodite taught her how to dance and how to attract any man without even having to look at him. Athena gave her great wisdom 5. Apollo taught her how to play many musical instrumenta, and the Muse’s taught her how to sing. Hermes taught her how to speak wonderful lies that made other people happy. The last gift was given to her by Hera, Zeus’ wife, and this was curiosity 6.The gods then named her Pandora, which means 7, “All-gifted” and placed her down on earth with all the common men.
- He was a man of intelligence and of firmness of will.他是个聪明而又意志坚定的人。
- He equals me in strength but not in intelligence.他和我力气相等，但智力不同。
- The UN began to get more and more powerful.联合国开始变得越来越强大了。
- Such are the most powerful voices of our times!这些就是我们时代的最有力的声音！
- According to facts in my possession he can't possibly be guilty.根据我所掌握的事实，他是不可能有罪的。
- The land is in the possession of the merchant.这块地为该商人所有。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- Experience is the mother of wisdom.经验为智慧之母。
- Ancient Greece was a fountain of wisdom and philosophy.古希腊是智慧和哲学的发源地。