I got Bs, for your information, and to this day, every Sunday I burn a small effigy to the pagan gods of grade inflation.

顺便说下，我拿了B，而且直至今日，每个礼拜天我都要烧小雕像，供奉保佑成绩膨胀的异教神灵。

Some say the church scheduled the Feast of St. Valentine during the pagan festival of Lupercalia in an attempt to Christianize the sexy holiday, which included spanking women with goatskin to promote fertility in the coming year.

有人说，教会安排在异教徒的牧神节期圣瓦伦泰节，是在试图使这个假期基督教化，其中包括用山羊皮抽打女性以促进来年的生育率提高。

They black themselves out and there is a sort of march of a dead wren to celebrate some sort of mid-winter pagan festival.

他们把自己涂黑，用类似于死亡鹪鹩的游来庆祝某个仲冬异教徒节日。

Carnival traditions heart back to pagan times when people dressed up in scary costumes and made noise to frighten away winter or welcome a New Year.

有一些狂欢节传统要追溯到异教徒时代，那时候，人们会身着恐怖服装，制造噪声，来吓走冬天并迎接新年。

Hello, my name is Brennus. I'm a Celt and a pagan.

大家好，我的名字布伦努斯。我是一名凯尔特人，是异教徒。

It was an ancient Pagan custom for people to cross fingers with each other.

人们互相交叉手指是个古老的异教徒习俗。

Essentially, instead of honoring pagan gods and mischievous spirits, they now celebrated Christian figures.

从本质上说，万圣节现在纪念的是基督教人物，而不是异教徒的神和淘气的精灵。

Augustine's mother (a saint herself) was a Christian, his father a pagan.

奥古斯丁的母亲（也是圣人）是基督徒，父亲不信教。

Anthropology was by definition impossible, as long as these distinctions between ourselves and the primitive, ourselves and the barbarian, ourselves and the pagan, held sway over people's minds.

只要我们同原始人、我们同野蛮人、我们同异教徒在的区别在人们头脑中占支配地位，人类学按它的定义就不可能在。

'You used to say at Talbothays that I was a pagan, do you remember? '

“你过去在塔尔勃塞常常说我是个异教徒，你记起来了吗？”

Unlike oral pagan religions, misinterpreting Christian texts could mean the difference between heaven and hell.

与口头的异教信仰不同，误解基督教文本可能意味着天堂与地狱的区别。

Gentoo actually means a pagan in Hindustan.

巴布亚企鹅在印度的意思是异教徒。

No, because we don't celebrate the ancient pagan festival of Saturnalia. Saturnalia?

不，我们不庆祝古老的异教农神节。农神节？

The date of this celebration was later moved to November 1st, possibly to overshadow any pagan traditions of Samhain, possibly because coinciding with the harvest meant there were more resources available at that time of year.

后来，这一庆祝活动的日期被移到了 11 月 1 日，这可能是为了掩盖夏末节的异教传统，也可能是因为恰逢收获季节意味着在一年中的这个时候有更多的资源可用。

Legend has it that in the late tenth century, the pagan Russian prince Vladimir the Great sent envoys across the world to discover and bring back all of the major world religions for the Russians to choose from.

有传言说在 10 世纪后期，无宗教信仰的俄罗斯王子弗拉基米尔大帝派遣使者走遍世界各地，去发现并带回世界上所有主要的宗教，供俄罗斯人选择信奉哪个宗教。

The site of St Patrick's Cathedral is said to be where he first baptised the pagan chieftains and altered Irish history.

圣派翠克大教堂的位置，据说是他第一次为异教首领施洗处并改变了爱尔兰的历史。

Each had its own King and Pope Gregory wanted Augustine to visit the Anglo-Saxons and persuade them to abandon their Pagan beliefs and embrace the Christian way of life.

教皇格里高利希望奥古斯丁访问盎格鲁-撒克逊人，说服他们放弃异教信仰，接受基督教的生活方式。

No one seems to know for sure if December 25th was actually the date of Christ's birth, but it is possible that Christian leaders in Ancient Rome wanted to replace pagan religious holidays that occurred around the same time.

好像没有人能肯定12月25日就是基督的实际诞生日，而更有可能的是，古罗马的基督教领导人想要以此取代几乎同时的异教徒的宗教节日。

He was indeed at that time as superstitious as the rest.In a battle, he was killed by a Moor.The looting carried on in the name of the Christian God would indeed make the pagans blush.

当时，他确实和其他人一样迷信。在一场战役中，他被一个摩尔人杀死。以基督教上帝的名义进的劫掠，真的连异教徒的脸都红了。

She had pagan eyes, full of nocturnal mysteries, and their light, as it came and went, and came again, was partially hampered by their oppressive lids and lashes.

她那异教徒的眼睛，充满夜的神秘，沉沉的眼睑和睫毛，半遮着来去流转的眼波。