异教

Was a fun and festive time for the Romans, but the Christians thought it an abomination to honor the pagan god.

是一个有趣和罗马节日的时间，但基督徒认为这可憎恶的荣誉异教的神。

"Jo Saturnalia!" was a fun and festive time for the Romans, but the Christians though it an abomination to honor the pagan god.

"乔农神节！"是一个有趣和罗马节日的时间，但基督徒虽然令人深恶痛绝的荣誉异教的神。

It was a gnomon, Silas had been told, a pagan astronomical device like a sundial.

有人告诉过塞拉斯，这是指时针，是异教的一种天文仪器，与日晷相似。

The golden calf was just going to be the base of a throne, to which pagan deities would be drawn.

金牛犊刚好要做成王位的基座，而这个基座会招引异教诸神。

In "Father and Son", a memoir about loss of faith published anonymously in 1907, Edmund Gosse describes how it drove his father, himself an eminent zoologist, to take him to live on top of a cliff, cutting him off from the world in an attempt to protect him from this heretical notion. The plan didn't work.

在1907年匿名出版、关于信仰迷失的回忆录《父与子》一书中，作者埃德蒙多·戈瑟讲述了他的父亲是如何在此书的驱动下，为了使他免受这一异教观念的影响，领着他住到悬崖之巅，让他过上与世隔绝的生活的。

In "Father and Son", a memoir about loss of faith published anonymously in 1907, Edmund Gosse describes how it drove his father, himself an eminent zoologist, to take him to live on top of a cliff, cutting him off from the world in an attempt to protect him from this heretical notion.

在一本于1907年匿名出版、有关丧失宗教信仰的回忆录—《父与子》中，艾德蒙·高斯（音译， Edmund Gosse ）描述了，它是如何迫使身为著名动物学家的父亲把他带到一个悬崖顶生活，将他和外部世界隔离，试图保护他不受这个异教观念的危害。

That helps to explain paganism's appeal to characters as diverse as the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (who was rumoured to keep an altar to Pan, a priapic pre-Christian fertility deity) and Kenneth Grahame, the author of "The Wind in the Willows", an Arcadian children's fantasy.

这点可以说明为什么异教很吸引一些像雪莱这样性情多变的诗人（谣传他在家中摆放一个潘-基督教前的生殖之神），同样受到吸引的还有肯尼思。格拉姆-《柳林风声》的作者，是一个田园儿童童话作家。

However, it was also during the age of the pax romana that this pagan tradition, this greco-roman tradition, was joined by another important tradition, by another world view.

然而还是在这个罗马和平的时期，这种异教传统，希腊罗马化的传统融合进了另一种重要的传统，另一种世界观念。

In religion, what damned error but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair… ornament?

在宗教里，对着邪恶的异教一些冷静浮华的赞美能遮盖住他的丑恶吗？

As well as these pagan practices involving fornication, there was also spiritual adultery and harlotry against God, their divine husband cf.

这一异教的活动，既包含通奸，又有灵性的淫乱，得罪上帝，也就是他们神圣的丈夫（参利20：5）。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失