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They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay taxes or give as holy offerings to the gods.
VOA: special.2010.02.17
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Similarly, Israel's gods, or Israel's God, was worshiped at various high places: they're referred to as elevated or high places.
类似的，以色列的神灵或者说以色列的上帝，也是在各种各样的高地受到崇拜：,它们被称作高起的地方或高地。
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He asks the gods what has happened to Lycidas and who exactly was responsible for the sinking of Lycidas' ship.
他问众神利西达斯怎么了,是谁让他的船沉没的。
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Its story begins with a plant whose scientific name, Theobroma cacao, means "food of the gods."
VOA: special.2010.02.17
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So it seems that humankind is to be destroyed because they irritate the gods with their tumult and noise.
这似乎是人类被毁灭的愿意,因为人类的噪杂惹怒了众神。
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This museum contains almost one thousand ancient works of art, including statues of Roman gods.
VOA: special.2010.02.03
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Also, though, what they would do is sometimes they wouldn't try to simply say these gods are the same.
当然，他们的做法是,通常不直说这些神都是一样的。
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Long after the fall of the ancient Egyptian civilization, doctors and alchemists in Europe continued the custom of showing a sign of the gods' help and protection.
VOA: special.2009.03.22
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But in Homer the term is reserved for Agamemnon or for gods, but not for any other human being.
但《荷马史诗》中这个位置给了阿伽门农,或者是上帝,而不是其他人
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And,the Greek gods are still alive and well and living in New York."
VOA: special.2009.10.12
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The charges against him were: corrupting the young and disbelieving in the Gods that the city believes in.
罪名是：,腐化青少年与,亵渎神明，雅典城所信奉的神明。
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The painted drawings and writings tell about gods of death and rebirth.
VOA: special.2010.08.04
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We are put in mind of how men are to the Gods as flies to men.
我们可以想到在上帝面前的人类和人类面前的飞虫。
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They were the center of their world, where the gods lived.
VOA: special.2010.04.08
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I don't know what that means-- like God or the gods favor me and so I'm lucky or this is my lucky day.
我不知道那是什么意思...,是说上帝或者众神眷顾我,所以我很幸运,或者说这是我的幸运日
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"Next spring, I'm going to release a book set in the modern day world but a fantasy based on Egyptian mythology, bringing all those old Egyptian gods back to life."
VOA: special.2009.10.12
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What is so different? What's different about having one God, from having a pantheon of gods headed by a superior god?
二者差别这么大吗？只信奉一个神，与信奉由一个主神领导的诸神有什么不同？
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Mercury was the speedy messenger of the Greek gods.
VOA: special.2009.06.10
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At this time, somewhere in this period, there was a transfer of power in the Canaanite pantheon from the older gods to younger gods.
在那段时间的某个地方,迦南众神的权利由年老的神向年轻的神过渡。
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Several Roman gods are also in the painting.
VOA: special.2010.01.27
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Like the storm gods in the myths of Israel's neighbors, Yahweh heaps up the waters with a blast of wind.
就像犹太人邻居的神话，耶和华用狂风卷起巨浪。
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"You are provoking the gods and you act as if there will be no consequence."
VOA: standard.2010.04.08
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Like Homer and like Virgil, Milton intends to soar above the wheeling poles of the visible world and describe the otherwise invisible comings and goings of the gods.
像荷马和维吉尔那样，弥尔顿想屹立于现实世界之上,去描绘无形世界中上帝的来来往往。
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It is now up to Perseus to lead a battle with the monsters loosed by the gods and save the city-state of Argos from destruction.
VOA: standard.2010.04.08
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They always assume that if something like that happened, it was some god or gods who was angry with them.
他们一直认为这种悲剧,是因为触怒了某个神灵
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What do we need of them? We are the gods now!" This disobedience this refusal to bow down in grateful prayer does not sit well up on Olympus.
VOA: standard.2010.04.08
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The Romans actually were very pious in the sense that they believed that whatever land they were in, they should provide sacrifices and honors for the local gods, especially the important ones.
而且非常虔诚,他们认为无论身处何处，都应该祭拜当地神明，尤其是重要的神。
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The gods need us. They need our worship.
VOA: standard.2010.04.08
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So, we'll talk a bit about what that means, with the different gods and goddesses, and how you learned all this in mythological courses and English in high school.
我们以后会谈到，不同神祇的意义，以及高中里神话及英语课的教学。
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Mythology is used to describe stories that deal with The birth, the life events of gods and demi-gods, sometimes legendary heroes, but narrating a sequence of events.
神话是指一些这样的故事,它们有关神或者半人半神的诞生及生平，也有时候是一些传奇英雄，讲述他们的一系列事迹。
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