牛虻

BEIJING — Local officials inShandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way todeal with gadflies, whistle-blowers and all manner of muckrakingcitizens who dare to challenge the authorities: dispatch them tothe local psychiatric hospital.

山东省官员显然已经找到了有效的方式来处理牛虻，举报人和各式揭发黑幕胆敢挑战当局的公民，那就是他们将被送到当地的精神病医院。

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

我就是这样一只牛虻，是神派我来依附于这个城邦。无论何时，无论何地，我对你们都穷追不舍，激发你们，劝戒你们，责备你们。

The cows jumped wildly over the five-barred barton-gate, maddened by the gad-fly; Dairyman Crick kept his shirt-sleeves permanently rolled up from Monday to Saturday: open windows had no effect in ventilation without open doors, and in the dairy-garden the blackbirds and thrushes crept about under the currant-bushes, rather in the manner of quadrupeds than of winged creatures.

奶牛被牛虻咬得发了疯，有五道横木的栅栏门都被它们跳了过去；从星期一到星期六，奶牛场的克里克老板卷起来的衬衣袖子，从来就没有放下来过。只开窗户而不把门打开，风是透不进来的；在奶牛场的园子里，乌鸦和画盾在覆盆子树丛下跳来跳去，看它们的样子，与其说它们是长翅膀的飞鸟，还不如说它们是长四条腿的走兽。

First Amendment Center:"Ed was a modern-day gadfly, albeit one who wore wide-rimmed glasses that allowed him to see things that many of the rest of us could not."

宪法第一修正案中心：尽管带着宽框眼睛使他看到了我们中的许多人都看不到的事物，Ed依然是个现代的牛虻。

Io io was the daughter of a rivergod.she was loved,run after and won by zeus.hera became so greeneyed that she flew down from olympus one day to pay her rival back .zeus,however,had foreseen her arrival and changed io into abeautiful white little cow.seeing through the trick,hera asked for the cow as a present and zeus had to give in to her wish .then she left the cow to the care of a hundredeyed monster,argus.argus'' eyes were ever open and no escape was possible.unable to bear to see her so unhappy,zeus sent hermes down todestroy the monster.dressed up as a shepherd,hermes lulled argus to sleep with his sweet songs and long stories,then killed him and set io free.but hera''s anger was not to be calmed downyet.she sent a gadfly to attack the cow and drive her from land to land.in her misery the cow passed over the strait which divides europe and asia.in this way the strip of water got itsname bosporus ,the way of the cow.she wandered over thesea,which by chance got from her its name the ionian sea .in the end she arrived in egypt where she was turned back into hernatural form .she settled down and gave birth to a son,some of her children remained in egypt and ruled as kings for a longtime.

伊俄伊俄是河神的女儿，宙斯爱她、追求她、并得到了她。赫拉对此嫉妒不已。一天她飞下奥林波斯山向情敌施加报复。然而宙斯早已预见到她的光临，就将伊俄变成了一头美丽的小白牛犊，赫拉看穿了其中的诡计，非要一头牛犊作为礼物。宙斯无奈，只得让她如愿以偿。赫拉便将牛犊托付给百眼魔鬼阿刚斯看管。阿刚斯的眼睛永远睁着，要想逃脱是不可能的。看到伊俄如此忧郁，宙斯简直无法忍受，便令赫耳墨斯将魔鬼铲除。赫耳墨斯乔装成牧羊人给阿刚斯唱悦耳动听的歌，讲冗长乏味的故事以哄他入睡。之后便寻机杀死魔鬼，释放了伊俄。但赫拉的狂怒并未消除。她派了一只牛虻去攻击牛犊，使她颠沛流离。在十分悲痛之中，牛犊穿越了分隔欧亚大陆的海峡。从此这片狭长的水域被称作博斯普鲁斯海峡，意为牛犊之路。她接着漫游过海，这片大海也就在偶然中有了名称——伊奥尼亚海，最后她到了埃及，并恢复了她本来的体态和容貌。她在那里落户并生了个儿子。她的一些子孙就呆在了埃及，当了很长时间的国王。

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