很早以前,人间没有火,人们吃生食,他们害怕寒冷,生活在一片黑暗之中。天神普罗米修斯和弟弟怜悯人类。他们不顾主神宙斯的禁令,从太阳神阿波罗那里盗取了火种,教人们使用火的方法。从此,人间有了温暖,大家和睦相处,生活得十分幸福。人们十分感谢这哥俩。宙斯知道后,十分生气,为了惩罚了普罗米修斯,把他绑在阿尔卑斯山下受苦。
Long long ago, there was no fire yet and people ate everything raw. They lived in fear of cold and the darkness. Prometheus and his brother disregarded the injuctions of Zeus and stole the fire seed from Apollo and told men how to make fire with it for the mercy on them. Ever since human have acquired warmness and had a peaceful and happy life. Human showed Promethrus their sincery gratitude for what he did for them, which made Zeus very annoyed. As a punishment, Zeus ordered the arrest of Promethrus and sent him to Alps to suffer there.
宙斯觉得不应该让人类生活得如此幸福,但人已经掌握了火的用法,于是他想出了一条毒计。他命令擅长雕塑的战神玛尔斯雕塑了一个女人,起名潘多拉。宙斯给了潘多拉生命,众神各赠给她一样礼物,使她拥有了许多可以吸引人类的优点。然后,潘多拉拿着宙斯给她的一个盒子,来到人间执行任务。
Zeus didn't think human deserved such happy lifes, nevertheless human have learned how to use fire.Then Zeus came up with a venomous scheme and ordered Mars who was good at sculpture to carve a lady figure, whom Zeus gave her life and named her as Pandora. All the other deities gave Pandora different gifts so she had every feature that was attractive to human. Afterwards Pandora came to the Earth on a mission with the box Zeus gave her.
当时人类都是男性,对于潘多拉都很好奇。普罗米修斯和弟弟因为违反了天条,当时留在了人间。普罗米修斯猜到潘多拉的到来是宙斯的阴谋,于是告诫人们远离她。大家都很崇拜普罗米修斯,听从了他的告诫。潘多拉因此在人间流浪了很多年,也没有完成任务。
Human that were sole male then were very curious about Pandora. Prometheus and his brother were detained in the human's world due to their violation to the injuctions of Zeus. Prometheus sensed that Pandora's arrival could be a deadly trap of Zeus, and warned people to keep away from her. People listened to Prometheus out of their worship to him. So Pandora stayed on the earth for many years without completing her mission.
后来,普罗米修斯的弟弟终于忍不住了,忘记了哥哥的话,被潘多拉所吸引。当他靠近潘多拉的一刹那,潘多拉打开了盒子,疾病、灾难、罪恶、贪婪等等从盒子中飞出,从此人类不再只有幸福。当希望要从盒子中飞出时,潘多拉却永久地关上了盒子,于是人们一生都在追寻希望。
Years later, it was Prometheus' brother who could not resist Pandola's attraction any more and forgot all about his brother's warning. No sooner had he moved close to Pandola than she opened the box and diseases, disasters, evils and greed and so on came out the box right away. Since that moment, human have not had sole happiness any more. At the moment when hope was about to come out of the box, Pandola closed the box for ever. Ever since human have been searching for hope all the time.
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