The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 6
就在近日，埃癸斯托斯不顾神意，娶了阿特柔斯之子的妻子，又在其夫归来时将他杀害，而这一切皆是在明知厄运在前的情况下所为。
Even as of late Aegisthus, beyond that which was ordained, took to him the wedded wife of the son of Atreus, and killed her lord on his return, and that with sheer doom before his eyes,
因为我们早已借明眸神使赫耳墨斯、阿耳戈斯的杀手之口警告过他，叫他既不可杀那人，也不可追求其妻。
since we had warned him by the embassy of Hermes the keen-sighted, the slayer of Argos, that he should neither kill the man, nor woo his wife.
因为阿特柔斯之子必将由俄瑞斯忒斯来复仇，只待他成年之时，心系故土之日。
For the son of Atreus shall be avenged at the hand of Orestes, so soon as he shall come to man's estate and long for his own country.
赫耳墨斯如此言说，却未能动摇埃癸斯托斯之心，纵然一片好意；然而如今他已为此付出了全部代价。
So spake Hermes, yet he prevailed not on the heart of Aegisthus, for all his good will; but now hath he paid one price for all.
灰眸女神雅典娜回答道：'哦，父亲，我们的父亲，克罗诺斯之子，高坐于最高之位者；那人所受之死，确是咎由自取；凡行此等恶事之人，皆当如此灭亡！'
And the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, answered him, saying: 'O father, our father Cronides, throned in the highest; that man assuredly lies in a death that is his due; so perish likewise all who work such deeds!
然而我的心为智慧的奥德修斯而碎，那可怜之人，久已远离朋友，在一座四面环海的岛上受苦，那岛乃是大海的肚脐，林木茂密之地。
But my heart is rent for wise Odysseus, the hapless one, who far from his friends this long while suffereth affliction in a sea-girt isle, where is the navel of the sea, a woodland isle,
岛上有一位女神居住，她是神秘的阿特拉斯之女，阿特拉斯知晓每片大海的深处，并以自身撑起那高耸的石柱，将大地与天空分隔开来。
and therein a goddess hath her habitation, the daughter of the wizard Atlas, who knows the depths of every sea, and himself upholds the tall pillars which keep earth and sky asunder.
正是她的女儿将那可怜的人困在悲伤之中：她不断以温柔而狡诈的言语诱惑他，使他忘却伊萨卡。
His daughter it is that holds the hapless man in sorrow: and ever with soft and guileful tales she is wooing him to forgetfulness of Ithaca.
Vocabulary
- Even
- 甚至；即使
- as
- 当...时候；如同
- of
- 属于；来自
- late
- 最近；晚近
- beyond
- 超过；在...之外
- that
- 那个；那
- which
- 哪个；这个
- was
- 是（过去式）
- took
- 拿；取（过去式）
- to
- 到；向
- him
- 他（宾格）
- the
- 定冠词
- wedded
- 已婚的；结婚的
- wife
- 妻子；妻
- son
- 儿子；男孩
- and
- 和；与
- killed
- 杀死；杀害（过去式）
- her
- 她的；她（宾格）
- lord
- 主人；贵族
- on
- 在...上；在...时候
- his
- 他的
- return
- 返回；回来
- with
- 用；与...一起
- sheer
- 纯粹的；陡峭的
- doom
- 厄运；注定的结局
- before
- 在...之前；以前
- eyes
- 眼睛；眼
- since
- 自从；因为
- we
- 我们
- had
- 有；拥有（过去式）
- warned
- 警告；警惕
- by
- 被；由
- embassy
- 使馆；大使
- he
- 他
- should
- 应该；应当
- neither
- 都不；既不
- kill
- 杀死；谋杀
- man
- 男人；人
- nor
- 也不；也没有
- For
- 因为；为了
- shall
- 将会；应该
- be
- 是；存在
- avenged
- 报仇；复仇
- at
- 在；以
- hand
- 手；近在咫尺
- so
- 所以；这样
- soon
- 很快；不久
- come
- 来；到来
- estate
- 地产；庄园
- long
- 长的；渴望
- own
- 自己的；拥有
- country
- 国家；乡村
- So
- 所以；因此
- yet
- 然而；但是
- not
- 不；没有
- heart
- 心；心脏
- all
- 全部；所有
- good
- 好的；善
- will
- 意愿；将会
- but
- 但是；然而
- now
- 现在；如今
- paid
- 支付；付出
- one
- 一个；某个
- price
- 价格；代价
- goddess
- 女神；女性神灵
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