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标题: 1月30日故事:泰瑞西斯Tiresias [打印本页]

作者: yy2235    时间: 2011-1-30 18:50     标题: 1月30日故事:泰瑞西斯Tiresias

Please read the story carefully,then translate the red sentences and tell me what are you thinking about when you read the whole story~Don't be shy,just make your imagination fly in your sky!  
        

Tiresias was a blind,darkseeing prophet of Thebes.

He was struck with blindness in his youth,because he had spied unwittingly on the goddess Athena.He was wandering in the woods one day when quite unexpectedly he saw anaked maiden bathing in a placid lake .Little did he know that he had offended the virgin goddess.Taken unaware and scarlet with wrath,the goddess exclaimed that whoever had the boldness to steal a glance at her naked body was doomed to perpetual blindness.But when she learned later that the offence was unintentional ,it was too late for her to take back what she had said.Taking pity on the poor youth for the loss of his sight,she obtained from Zeus an exceptional long life for him,and from Apollo a divine power of prophecy.

Besides,she provided him with a marvellous sharpness of ear,so that he could under stand the voices of all birds.And she filled his mind with mystic knowledge of things past and of things to come.

In short shegave him quite an amount of her own wisdom.He was the firstto recognise and welcome Dionysus,god of feast and wine,on the The ban land.When the infant Heracles caught Hera's two serpents in its hands,it was Tiresias who cast the child's fortune and revealed the divine origin and destiny of the boy .When Oedipus abused Tiresias as having had a hand in themurder of Laius,Tiresias had the fearless courage to tell thetruth that Oedipus was the murderer.Even in the lower world he continued to prophesy.There he helped Odysseus when the hero came to him for advice.

   Alive,he was highly respected byall;dead,he enjoyed the generous air and rosy light in the land of the Blest.

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作者: 云舟一念    时间: 2011-2-7 09:51

Tiresias was a blind,darkseeing prophet of Thebes.
泰瑞西斯是位只能看见黑暗的底比斯先知。
Besides,she provided him with a marvellous sharpness of ear,so that he could under stand the voices of all birds.And she filled his mind with mystic knowledge of things past and of things to come.
并且,她赋予他神奇敏锐的双耳,这样他就可以明白各种鸟语。此外,雅典娜给了他魔术般的本领,使他既知过去,也能预测未来。
Alive,he was highly respected byal.
活着的时候,他受到人们的普遍敬重.


This story tells us:The world for you closes a door at the same time, for you will open a window .That depends on how you use it




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