19世纪末和20世纪初的人类学家们拥护的最广为接受的理论认为,戏剧起源于神话和宗教仪式。
The most widely accepted theory, championed by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, envisions theater as emerging out of myth and ritual.
除了词义之外,歌谣、史诗故事、原始神话和日常见闻中的意境也是不可译的,或者说不牺牲表现力、不接受细微差别、不改变情感影响就无法翻译到位。
Beyond word meanings, the poetics of song, epic tales, origin myths and everyday stories cannot be translated, or at least not well, without losing expressive power, nuance, and affect.
大力神的传说:海格力斯(AKA大力神)这个名字是古希腊的神话人物,由古罗马传说的赫拉克利斯(译者注:为大力英雄的意思)而来.赫拉克利斯被赋予了一个合适的希腊名字,并成为了古希腊神话中最有名的一个英雄人物.为了赎罪,他被迫接受了十二试炼,完成了一系列的英雄任务,和艰苦的劳务.
Hercules was the name by which the Greek mythological character Heracles was known to the Romans. Heracles, to give him his proper Greek name, was the most famous of the Greek mythological heroes.
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