Orestes grew up juggling his moral obligation to avenge his father's murderer against the grave sin of matricide.

俄瑞斯忒斯在成长过程中，一直在履行自己道德义务，为父之仇凶手报仇，犯下弑母重罪。

Cyril and his followers blamed Hypatia, accusing her of witchcraft to turn Orestes against Christianity.

西里尔和他追随者指责希帕提娅，指控她使用巫术使奥雷斯蒂斯反对基督。

Electra escaped the curse, marrying Orestes's friend and co-conspirator, Pylides.

厄克特拉逃脱了诅咒，嫁给了奥瑞斯特斯挚友兼同谋皮里底斯。

Orestes, Agamemnon's son who killed Aegisthus.

俄瑞斯忒斯，阿伽门农之子，曾弑埃癸斯托斯。

Orestes slew her also, but carried her dying curse on his head.

俄瑞斯忒斯同样将她死，却背负着她临终诅咒。

In Euripides, Electra has her hand on the sword, urging Orestes on with ruthless violence.

在 Euripides 中， Electra 手握剑， 用无情暴力驱使 Orestes 继续前进。

But when a group of Cyril's monks incited a riot, badly injuring Orestes in the process, he had their leader tortured to death.

但是，当一群西里尔僧侣煽动骚乱，在此过程中严重伤害了奥雷斯特斯时，奥雷特斯命令将他们领导人折磨致死。

He acted, too, including in a play called " Orestes the Mother-Killer" —appropriately, since he had tried to kill his own.

他还出演过戏剧， 其中包括一部名为《俄瑞斯忒斯——弑母者》剧目——这很合适，因为他曾试图害自己母亲。

Then he has to prevent himself being killed when Orestes turns up in a foul temper.

然后，当俄瑞斯忒斯脾气暴躁地出现时， 他必须防止自己。

" Please remove your blade from my throat, " the slave says, " I don't like the glare" (Orestes 1153).

“把你刀片从我喉咙上取下来， ” 奴隶说，“我不喜欢强光” （Orestes 1153）。

2 The stately ritual libations become a water pot, and Electra serially dismisses the Old Man's Aeschylean suggestions to find clues for the proof of Orestes' return.

2 庄严仪式奠酒变成了水罐，厄勒克特拉连续驳回了老人埃斯库罗斯建议， 即寻找奥瑞斯忒斯回归证据线索。

The slave is obliged to report to the chorus what happened to Helen inside the palace when Orestes and Pylades were trying to murder her.

当俄瑞斯忒斯和皮拉德斯试图谋海伦时， 奴隶有义务向合唱团报告海伦在宫殿内发生事情。

In doing so, he encroached on the secular authority of the Roman governor Orestes, himself a moderate Christian, leading to a bitter public feud between the two men.

在这样做过程中， 他侵犯了罗马总督奥雷斯特斯世俗权威，奥雷斯特斯本人是温和基督徒， 导致两人之间发生激烈公开争执。

William Arrowsmith, " Introduction to Orestes, " in Euripides IV, ed. David Grene and Richmond Lattimore (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 106.

2. William Arrowsmith，“俄瑞斯忒斯简介”，收录于 Euripides IV，编辑。 David Grene 和 Richmond Lattimore（芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社，1958 年），106。

Picking up on Aristotle's passing remark about the paltriness of slaves, think of the moment in Euripides' Orestes when Helen's Phrygian slave comes onstage toward the end of the play.

拿起亚里士多德关于奴隶卑微评论，想想欧里庇得斯奥瑞斯忒斯中海伦弗里吉亚奴隶在戏剧结束时登台那一刻。

Orestes felt it the duty of a son to avenge his father, so, with his sister's help and encouragement, he disguised himself and gained access to the palace, where he killed Aegisthus.

俄瑞斯忒斯认为，为父报仇是儿子职责，于是，在姐姐帮助和鼓励下，他乔装打扮，混入宫中，并在那里死了埃癸斯托斯。复仇之要求克吕泰涅斯特拉也为她在罪行中所扮演角色付出代价。

In Euripides' Electra, Medea, and Orestes, we witness catastrophe upon catastrophe, events that are so " badly motivated" that they require the external, mechanical intercession of the deus ex machina that Aristotle criticizes.

在欧里庇得斯伊莱克特拉、美狄亚和俄瑞斯忒斯中，我们目睹了一场又一场灾难，这些事件动机如此“恶劣”，以至于它们需要亚里士多德批评机械外部机械干预。

In Aeschylus, Orestes doubts the legitimacy of his action in killing his mother, and turns to Pylades, who, in his only line in the play, reassures Orestes that Apollo has ordained the act.

在埃斯库罗斯 (Aeschylus) 中， 俄瑞斯忒斯 (Orestes) 怀疑他死母亲行为合法性，并求助于皮拉德斯 (Pylades)， 皮拉德斯在剧中唯一台词中向俄瑞斯忒斯保证，阿波罗已命定了这一行为。

Suddenly, as Philip stood alone basking in all the glory, one of his bodyguards, Pausanias of Orestes, rushed from his position and, before the horrified stares of the people, stabbed the king in his chest and fled.

突然，当腓力二世独自一人沉浸在所有荣耀之中时，他一个贴身护卫，来自奥雷斯提斯波萨尼亚斯，从他位置冲了出来，在众人惊恐注视下刺中了国王胸部，然后逃走了。

The effect of the slave's inability to speak Greek, combined with the intelligence he deploys to outwit Orestes and save his own skin, is wonderfully comic and a sheer anomaly in the flow of the drama.

奴隶不会说希腊语，再加上他用智慧来智取奥瑞斯忒斯并保全自己性命，这在戏剧流程中是非常滑稽， 也是一个纯粹反常现象。