One of the favourite games in fairy tales is metamorphosis.

神故事的惯用手法之凭借魔力改变形态。

He likes to listen to fairy stories.

他喜欢听神故事。

What he said sounded like a fairy tale.

他说的听上去简像篇神。

I always was a sucker for a good fairy tale.

我从前对精彩的神故事很着迷的人。

The imaginative child made up fairy stories.

这想像力丰富的孩子自己编神故事。

He is remembered for his historical and mythological works.

他以其带有历史感和神色彩的作品而著称。

The story has points of resemblance to a Hebrew myth.

这故事与某希伯来神有相似之处。

There are many stories about the nymphs in Roman fairy tales.

罗马神中有许多关于仙女的故事。

He confused the Cyclops by the clever ruse (techne) of declaring he was “Nobody”.

他通过声称自己“无名之辈”这聪明的小把戏（Techne）让独眼巨人（出自希腊神——译者注）昏了头。

In Greek mythology,Zeus was the ruler of Gods and men.

希腊神中,宙斯众神和人类的统治者。

The Greek mythopeic goddess of "Love" and "Beauty".

亚芙洛蒂，希腊神中掌管“爱”与“美”的女神。奥林匹斯十二主神之。

People’s faith in the Emperor was based on the myth that he was infallible.

人们效忠君主基于他永无过失的神。

Nobody believes in the myth about human beings becoming immortals.

谁也不相信人能成仙的神。

Ganesa was the god of wisdom and success in Hindu mythology.

度神中，象头神智慧和成功之神。

For the bubbleheaded young Narcissus of myth, the mirror spun a fatal fantasy, and the beautiful boy chose to die by the side of a reflecting pond rather than leave his “beloved” behind.

对希腊神中天真到近乎愚蠢的青年纳西斯而言，镜子编织出致命的幻想，让这美丽的少年抛下所有爱他和他爱的人，选择死自己的溪中倒影旁。

A platonistic ontology of this sort is, from the point of view of a strictly physicalistic conceptual scheme, as much a myth as that physicalistic conceptual scheme itself is for phenomenalism.

从严格的物理主义的观点看来，这样的柏拉图主义本体论也神，正如从现象主义看来，那物理主义的概念结构本身神样。

Here is a miraculous Narnia magic kingdom——a magic world once possessed full of spirits and talkable animals, dwarf and giant , in this world, "human" is the biological of the myth.

这里就神奇的纳尼亚魔法王国——曾经充满精灵、会说的动物、小矮人和巨人的魔法世界，这世界里，“人类”才神里的生物。

Homer says the god Hephaestus used techne to forge iron chains as thin as spider webs around the godly bed in order to ensnare his cheating wife.

荷马说赫菲斯托斯（希腊神火神，跛子——译者注）使用工艺（Techne）打造了细如蛛网的钢铁链条来困住他不忠的妻子。

I think, in part, we mythologize sacrifice, ennoble it with layer upon layer of redemptive they-did-not-suffer-and-die-in-vain meaning, because it enables us to bear the pain of loss.

我想，我们神牺牲者，给他们批上层救赎的外衣，认为他们的苦难和死亡并非毫无意义而更显尊贵，某种程度上只为了让我们能承受失去他们的痛苦。

Far from reproducing a mythological past, the disorder of the carnival and the tumultuous destruction of the charivari re-actualize a real historical situation of anomy.

远非复制神般的过去，狂欢节的失序以及闹婚活动的肆意破坏再现了种真实历史的混乱场景。