4 And that was it. The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were captured in a condensed non-statement. My student's " whoa" ! was exceeded only by my head-shaking distress.

没了。所有希腊文明和罗马建筑的辉煌居然囊括于一个浓缩的、不完整的语句之中！我的学生以" 哇！" 来表示她的惊叹，我只能以摇头表达比之更强烈的忧虑。

" Katherine" , coined by the ancient Greeks, it denotes " purity."

" 凯瑟琳" ，源自古希腊，代表纯洁。

Nike is the Greek goddess of victory.

耐克的英文原意指希腊胜利女神。

Stoicism was founded in Ancient Greece by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, but was practised by the likes of Epictetus, Cato, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius.

斯多葛学派于公元前3世纪早期由西提乌姆的泽诺在古希腊创立，但埃皮克泰德、卡托、塞内卡和马库斯·奥雷利乌斯等人都信奉斯多葛学派。

Troy was besieged by the Greeks for ten years.

特洛伊城被希腊人围攻历时10年。

Named after the ancient Greek footrace, the Marathon Motor Works created beautiful roadsters and tourers which were in demand all over the globe.

取名自希腊马拉松的“马拉松汽车厂”，生美丽的双座敞篷车，以及销往全球的敞篷旅行车。

You bet! No chop. Especially for Southern European countries, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy, high unemployment and consumer recession injured them seriously and encumbered other countries.

是啊，很差的。尤其是那几个南欧国家，如希腊、西班牙、葡萄牙和意大利，失业率很高，消费也很低迷，还拖累了很多周边国家。

Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court's liberals, ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun.

大法官Anthony Kennedy，首席大法官John Roberts 以及自由派大法官一致裁定亚利桑那州无视联邦政府，自行其是。（原意为飞得靠近，语出希腊神话）。

This notorious body belongs to the Greek goddess Aphrodite.

这具声名狼藉的身体属于希腊女神阿佛洛狄忒。

An aeronautics enthusiast who lives in a forest near Portland, Oregon, has taken a Greek passenger plane from the 1960s and made a home out of it.

一位居住在俄勒冈州波特兰市附近森林里的航天爱好者，从20世纪60年代起就驾驶一架希腊客机，并以此为家。

It's actually why Santorini in Greece looks the way it does.

这就是为什么希腊的圣托里尼看起来是这样的。

Well, it turns out that three other Greek goddesses wanted that golden apple.

嗯，事实证明三位其他的希腊女神想要得到这个金苹果。

Ancient Greeks thought of an eclipse as a time when the sun abandoned the earth.

古老的希腊人认为当抛弃地球的时候就会发生日食和月食的现象。

Others are older, and some are much older; Cassandra, remember, was an ancient Greek.

有些书比较旧，还有一些更旧——印象中Cassandra好像是一名古希腊人。

To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!

“拿起武器！他们来了！希腊人！希腊人！”

The good news is you've managed to locate the legendary dungeon containing the stash of ancient Stygian coins and the eccentric wizard who owns the castle has even generously agreed to let you have them.

好消息是你成功找到了传说中的的地窖，那儿存放着古希腊冥河的钱币，而那位拥有这座城堡的古怪巫师竟然慷慨地同意让你带走这些钱币。

Like the Sirens, whose seductive singing shipwrecked Odysseus and his sailors in ancient Greek mythology.

就像古希腊神话中的塞壬，她的诱惑歌声使奥德修斯和他的水手们遭遇海难。

Ancient Greece was a time of great learning around ideas of space, time and light and during the subsequent Roman Empire these ideas were mostly embraced.

古希腊时期的学者提出了很多关于宇宙，时间和光的思想理论，而这些理论在随后的古罗马帝国也大多被接受。

Right at the top of the Qinling Mountains lives a rare and mysterious creature that has inspired legends as far away as ancient Greece.

就在秦岭山顶，生活着一种稀有而神秘的生物，由他们激发的神话可追溯到古希腊。

The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be.

希腊人认为，语言结构与思维过程之间存在着某种联系。这一观点在人们尚未认识到语言的千差万别以前就早已在欧洲扎下了根。