自从奥德修斯(《奥德赛》的主人公，译者注)命令他的船员在经过塞壬妖女的时候将他绑在桅杆上，人类就一直在寻找这种东西了。
This is what humans have sought ever since Odysseus ordered his crew to tie him to the mast while sailing past the Sirens.
小说中的主人公奥马尔•尤塞夫(Omar Yussef)几乎就是一位平凡的主角：他是一位教师，思想陈旧、曾一度酗酒成性、饱受关节疼痛的折磨、做事缺乏勇气。
His protagonist, Omar Yussef, is almost an anti-hero: a creaky ex-alcoholic schoolteacher with painful joints and faltering moral courage.
斯科塞斯又给演职员们看了一部影片—希区柯克的“迷魂记”，同时，我们感觉到这是对影片主人公患恐高症的效仿。
"Another film Scorsese showed his cast was Hitchcock's" Vertigo, "and we sense echoes of its hero's fear of heights."
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