外國人最想和你聊的名人話題：荷馬

     Homer Epic is very hard to understand.
     《荷馬史詩》很難理解。
     The book is not written by Homer.
     這本書不是荷馬寫的。
     Homer Epic is a wonderful book, from which I have learned a lot.
     《荷馬史詩》是一本很出色的書，我從中學(xué)到了很多。
     Kefalonia is thought to be Homer's Same, because a local town is called Sami.
     凱法利尼亞被認(rèn)為是荷馬筆下的塞姆，因為當(dāng)?shù)匾粋€鎮(zhèn)子叫做塞米。
     Had Homer's Trojan War really happened?
     荷馬的特洛伊之戰(zhàn)真的發(fā)生過嗎？
     Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
     荷馬是《伊利亞特》和《奧德賽》的作者。
     If it appealed to you, you could be reading Homer in the original Greek.
     如果你感興趣的話，你可以讀希臘原文的《荷馬史詩》。
     What do modern day scholars think about Homer?
     當(dāng)代學(xué)者對荷馬是怎么看的？
     The writings of Homer are the origins of kinds of literature traditions in the west.
     荷馬的作品是西方多種文學(xué)傳統(tǒng)的源頭。
     The summer blockbuster season heats up as the story of Troy leaps from the pages of Homer's The Iliad to movie theaters across the United States.
     《荷馬史詩》之《伊利亞特》中特洛伊戰(zhàn)爭的故事將在銀幕上生動再現(xiàn)，今夏美國影院全線熱力上映。
     He quoted Homer's Odyssey.
     他引用了荷馬的《奧德賽》。
     This is a book that luxuriates in description and the use of extended metaphor, as Homer did himself.
     這本書中，就像荷馬寫作的《荷馬史詩》那樣，敘述豐潤、厚重，使用了大量隱喻。
     Formerly they were ascribed to a particular blind bard, Homer, who was supposed to have sat down and composed them as Milton composed Paradise Lost.
     以前史詩被認(rèn)定為某一獨特的盲吟游詩人荷馬所作，人們猜想他坐下來創(chuàng)作時，彌爾頓正在創(chuàng)作《失樂園》。
     "The Odyssey", by Homer, tells the tale of Odysseus's ten-year journey back from the Trojan War to his wife, Penelope.
     荷馬筆下的"奧德賽"，講述了奧德修斯從特洛伊戰(zhàn)爭歷經(jīng)十年返回到妻子帕涅洛普身邊的故事。
     Milton wants to write an epic that in some ways comes before, or prevents, the great epics of Homer and Virgil.
     彌爾頓想寫一首在某種程度上先于荷馬和維吉爾偉大史詩的史詩。
     But we quickly see that the people referred to as Basileus in Homer are not like the great King of Persia.
     但回溯一下那些在《荷馬史詩》中被稱為巴賽勒斯的人，卻并不像波斯王那樣強(qiáng)大。
     There are no arguments in Homer's Iliad or Odyssey.
     沒有辯論存在于荷馬的《伊利亞特》或《奧德賽》書中。
     When I was a young boy, I would've studied just reading and writing Homer.
     我小時候要學(xué)習(xí)閱讀書寫《荷馬史詩》。
     Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.
     在公元前幾百年，荷馬這樣描述奧德賽的幾個同伴的命運，一個女巫將他們變成了豬。
     What theme had Homer but original sin?
     除了原罪外，《荷馬史詩》還能有什么主題？
     The kings when we see them in Homer do not have a bureaucracy, do not have scribes.
     從《荷馬史詩》中所看到的那些國王，他們沒有官僚作風(fēng)，沒有隨身抄寫員。
     Well, let me turn to another aspect of the story of Homer and how the poems play into Greek society.
     接著讓我們轉(zhuǎn)向《荷馬史詩》的另一方面，看看詩歌是如何融入希臘社會的。
     In the story that Homer tells in the Odyssey, Odysseus himself is such a newcomer.
     在荷馬寫的《奧德賽》這一節(jié)中，奧德修斯也是外鄉(xiāng)人。
     Ironically, the more Homer exaggerates, the more authentic he is as a representative of the Bronze Age.
     諷刺的是，荷馬越是夸大其辭，他就越真實的代表了青銅時代的史實。
     The Greeks, in Homer's world, seem to regard one just about as well as they do the other.
     荷馬時期的希臘人，似乎和看重其他品質(zhì)一樣，看重這個品質(zhì)。
     This is how Homer prepared himself to be the greatest and the first of all epic poets.
     荷馬就是這樣來讓自己成為最偉大的，并且是第一個史詩詩人。
     Homer and Virgil and, well after them, Dante and innumerable others have all applied the simile of the leaves or some version of it to describe the numberless-ness of the dead.
     荷馬，維吉爾，在他們之后還有但丁，以及無法計數(shù)的曾經(jīng)用過這個落葉比喻，或者變種版本來形容死者的數(shù)量極多的其他詩人們。