If Oedipus had laughed off the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, instead of completely freaking out about it, he would have never left for Thebes and made the prophecy come true.

年面对那个“弑母”的预言，如果俄狄浦斯能付之一笑，而不是陷入极度恐慌，他也许根本就不会动身前往底比斯，预言也就不会成真了。

In Mr Toibin's opinion, " killing your father or your mother" is a necessary precursor to becoming an original writer.

在托宾看来，“弑弑母”是称为一个原创作家的必要前提。

Yeah, he's got yeah, he definitely has patricide face.

是的，他确实有弑者的面相。

A computer will never replace the utter devastation that an audience feels when they look up on the stage and see Oedipus Rex discovering that he has murdered his father and married his own mother.

计算机永远无法替代观众抬头望向舞台，目睹俄狄浦斯王发现自己弑母时所感受到的那种彻底的毁灭感。

And Thana is a former princess of the gods, and she decides to kill her father because the woman she loves, Thavra, has been threatened by him, and so she kills him.

塔娜曾是神族的公主，她决定杀死自己的亲，因为她的爱人塔夫拉受到了亲的威胁，因此她采取了弑的行动。

It's named the Oedipus Complex because of the tragedy by the famous Greek playwright Sophocles in which Oedipus, the king of Thebes, inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother.

这一现象被称为俄狄浦斯情结， 源于古希腊著名剧作家索福克勒斯的悲剧作品。剧中， 底比斯国王俄狄浦斯无意间弑并母为妻。

The cunning princess wept more bitterly and whispered, could you take away the life of the king, my father, and escape the infamy of being called his murderer?

狡猾的公主哭得更伤心了，她低声说，你能夺亲国王的生命，并且不背上弑者的骂名吗？

In the classic play Oedipus Rex, the title character is unaware that he has killed his own father and married his mother.

在经典戏剧《俄狄浦斯王》中，主角俄狄浦斯并不知道他已弑母。

If he did, the soothsayer prophesied the king's son would grow up to kill him and then marry his wife.

若他如此，预言者预言，国王之子将长大弑，并其母为妻。

If you've seen the movie, you remember that Commodus actually murdered his own father to seize the throne.

如果你看过这部电影，你会记得康茂德实际上是弑篡位。

It finds Oedipus, now aged and exiled, confronted with accusations of incest and patricide.

剧中的俄狄浦斯已年迈流亡，面临乱伦和弑的指控。

When later historians discuss this matter, they point out that on the one hand Lord Zhuang of Lu was Lady Wen Jiang's son, and on the other hand, she murdered his father.

后来的历史学家在讨论此事时指出，鲁庄公一方面是文姜夫人的儿子，另一方面又是她弑的。

Patricidal Patriarch Artists in ancient Greece almost invariably represented Kronos carrying a sickle, an emblem of his attack upon his father.

古希腊弑的族长艺术家们几乎无一例外地描绘克洛诺斯手持镰刀，这一形象象征着他对其的攻击。

Now, when she killed her father, he cursed her, and he cursed her such that she became a vampire.

在她弑之后，他诅咒了她，使她变成了吸血鬼。

Although Oedipus had not been aware that he was committing patricide or incest, his behavior had to be punished.

尽管俄狄浦斯并不知道自己犯下了弑和乱伦的罪行，他的行为仍然必须受到惩罚。

If criminals did not suffer exemplary punishment, There would be a great many more regicides and patricides.

如果罪犯不受到惩戒，弑君弑的事还会多得多。

He went to Delphi to ask the Oracle and discovered that he was fated to kill his father and wed his mother.

他前往德尔斐求问神谕，得知自己注定要弑母。

He had been warned by an oracle that she was destined to bear a son who would one day slay him.

他曾被神谕警示，预言她将诞下一个儿子，此子终将弑。