Oceanides Thetis, Achilles' mother, grasped his heel to soak him in the Styx River after he was born.

阿克琉斯出生后，他的母亲海洋女神西蒂斯握着他的脚跟在冥河里浸泡。

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This is the story Homer tells in the Iliad. Achilles' mother bathed him as a baby in the River Styx to make him immortal, deathless like a god.

荷马在《伊里亚特》讲的故事是这样的：阿奇·里斯的母亲在冥河里给出生的阿奇·里斯沐浴，为了使他能像神一样地永生不死。

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So Venus gave Psyche more impossible tasks, such as to fetch the golden wool of some fierce sheep and to obtain black water from the river Styx.

所以维纳斯交给普绪客更多不可能实现的任务，比如取来某种暴躁的羊的金色羊毛，还有得到冥河的黑水。

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Experts say it was customary to place a coin in the mouth of an inhumation as a fare for the ferryman Charon for safe passage across the River Styx in the afterlife.

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Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is named after the ferryman who carried the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx, which divided the world of the living from that of the dead.

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Standing too long in the middle of the financial equivalent of the river Styx can have severe consequences.

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