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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But if you push it too far you will anger the gods and something terrible will happen to you.

但是如果过分追名逐利,便会触怒诸神,灾难随即降临

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Some few people who had sinned terribly and earned the wrath of the gods would, indeed, be tortured in some special and typically Greek, interesting way. You remember Tantalus.

一些罪孽深重,触怒神灵的人,的确会受到一些希腊式的特殊刑罚,这很有意思,你们记得坦塔罗斯

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