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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The swan is really only a force, and Yeats's concern is rather with the human experience of that force, which is, again, another manifestation of "terrible beauty."

这天鹅只是一种力量，而叶芝所关注的是,人类对此力量的感受，而这又是，一次，惊人之美，的表现“

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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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