(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
"Out in the middle of the wine-dark sea, there is a land called Crete, a rich and lovely land washed by the sea on every side; and in it are many peoples and 90 cities. There, one language mingles with another...Among the cities is Knossos, a great city; and there Minos was nine years king, the boon companion of mighty Zeus."
暗酒色的大海里，有一片名叫克里特的土地 它富庶美丽，四面环海有九十个城市，人口众多。在这些城市中，有一座伟大的城市叫克诺索斯在宙斯的恩典下，米诺斯做了九年的王。
That was Homer, singing the praises of Crete, prosperous and cosmopolitan, and of its great king Minos. Now in Greek myth, Minos had a very complex relationship with bulls. He was the son of Zeus, king of the gods, but in order to father him, Zeus had turned himself into a bull. Minos's wife in turn had conceived an unnatural passion for a very beautiful bull and the fruit of that obsession was the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull. Minos was so ashamed of his monstrous stepson that he had him imprisoned in the labyrinth, and there the Minotaur devoured a regular supply of maidens and youths sent every year by Athens-until, that is, the Greek hero Theseus succeeded in killing him. The story of Theseus and the Minotaur, of man facing down his monstrous demons, has been told and re-told for centuries-by Ovid, Plutarch, Virgil and others-and it's part of the high canon of Greek myth, of Freudian psychology and of European art.
在希腊神话中，米诺斯是克里特的统治者，与公牛之间的关系错综复杂。他是美丽的欧罗巴与众神之主宙斯的儿子。当初，为了引诱欧罗巴，宙斯变成了一头公牛。而后来米诺斯的王后也对一头雄壮的公牛产生了感情，因而生下了牛头人身的米诺陶洛斯。米诺斯觉得这个怪兽继子让他 颜面尽失，便将它囚禁在一座地下迷宫里。米诺陶洛斯要求雅典每年向它进贡童男童女，最终被英雄忒修斯杀死。忒修斯与米诺陶洛斯的故事 被人代代传诵：英雄先藏匿起来，找时机发动进攻，最后成功杀死怪兽。奥维德、普鲁塔克和维吉尔等人都有过记述。这是希腊神话、弗洛伊德心理学以及欧洲艺术的经典故事之一。
重点讲解
1.in order to 为了
Why does my iphone need so much data in order to assist it in finding my location today?
为什么iPhone需要如此多的数据以帮助定位我的当前位置？
In order to fight off deflation, a central banker needs to basically create inflation.
为了消除通缩，央行官员一般都需要制造通胀。
2.succeed in 获得成功
So why did gm succeed in china while it was failing in north america?
那为什么通用汽车在美国失利却在中国取得了成功？
Such offerings may also succeed in reducing the demand for pirated music.
提供此类的服务也许还能成功削减盗版音乐的需求量。
