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You'll remember that in his search for immortality Utnapishtim Gilgamesh sought out Utnapishtim, the one human who had been granted immortality.
他对永生的追求,吉尔伽美什找到，唯一可以长生不老的人类。
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Gilgamesh was apparently a historical character, an actual king of Uruk but the story of course has fantastic and legendary qualities to it.
吉尔伽美什在历史上，是乌鲁克的国王,但是这系列故事，具有史诗般的传奇色彩。
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In The Epic of Gilgamesh we have no motive given for the divine destruction whatsoever. It just seems to be pure capriciousness.
在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，并没有引起这场大灾难的原因,似乎就像是一场自然灾难。
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This parallel is The Epic of Gilgamesh I get to point this way now, to the boards, okay?
这个故事便是《吉尔伽美什史诗》,我应该指这边？
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In The Epic of Gilgamesh they were the ones who got the plant of eternal youth. It's etiological.
在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中,蛇得到了可以永葆年轻的植物，所以蜕皮。
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That's the name of the city-state over which he is king. And the epic as we now have it was probably composed between 2000 and 1800 BCE.
吉尔伽美什的故事,据传，这部史诗创作于公元前2000-1800年之间。
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But the most detailed flood story we have actually comes from The Epic of Gilgamesh, on the eleventh tablet of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
但是其中，记载最详尽的,是在《吉尔伽美什史诗》11章中。
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It turns out that Utnapishtim can't help him, and we'll come back to Utnapishtim later in the flood story, and Gilgamesh is devastated.
结果他并不能帮助吉尔伽美什，等一会，我们在洪水的,故事中，还会提到Utnapishtim，吉尔伽美什几乎绝望了。
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The story opens with a description of Gilgamesh.
故事的开始，是一段对吉尔伽美什的描写。
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So that's tablet I from The Epic of Gilgamesh.
这段摘自《吉尔伽美什史诗》
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On the one hand it's clearly good that humans rise above the animals and build cities and wear clothes and pursue the arts of civilization and develop bonds of love and duty and friendship the way that animals do not; these are the things that make humans like the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
一方面，成为人类也未尝不是一件好事,人类优于动物，穿着衣服，用自己的双手建造城市,打造文明的生活方式，而爱和责任,把人类联结起来，这些是动物无法比拟的,在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，这些特质让人类具有神性。
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Come, let me lead thee ramparted Uruk, To the holy Temple, abode of Anu and Ishtar, Where lives Gilgamesh, accomplished in strength And like a wild ox lords it over the folk."
来吧，让我带你一起去乌鲁克城，住在Anu，和，Ishtar神庙，去到那吉尔伽美什,倚仗他和野牛一样的力量统治着的地方“
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And when Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh is absolutely devastated.
当Enkidu死了，吉尔伽美什几近崩溃。
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Utnapishtim And finally exhausted and battered he reaches Utnapishtim, also there on the board, Utnapishtim, who is the only mortal ever to have been granted immortality by the gods, and he comes to him and asks for his secret.
耗尽精力，终于到达，在屏幕上的Utnapishtim，是上帝恩准的唯一,可以长生不老的人，吉尔伽美什跟他讨教长生的秘密。
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