IN GREEK legend, the hydra was a many-headed monster. If a head was severed, it grew back.

希腊神话中，许德拉是一头九首怪物，它的头如果被砍，马上就会长回；其实在某些故事版本中，会很快长出两个头。

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Amongst these were slaying the many-headed Hydra, retrieving the Golden Apples of the Hesperides and bringing the hellhound Cerberus up from the Underworld. Heracles was also an Argonaut.

在这些行动中,他杀了凶残的九头蛇怪兽,偷了赫斯帕里德斯(译者注:传说中守护金苹果树的仙女)的金苹果.活捉冥府看门狗地狱之犬并从地府带了上来.海格力斯也是亚尔古的船员(译者注:去海外寻找金羊毛的古船).

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They were fighting a hydra headed monster .

他们的对手是三头六臂的妖怪。

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