神话

He is a myth, but also a madman.

他是神话，也是疯子。

The subject is therefore involving, evocative and fascinating, especially when we investigate the relationship between ceramics and music, broadening our enquiry to include the images of myth and reality, that universe of the Muses which occupied the position of honour in illustrated majolica, but which also came to include and hand down to us images of customs, usages and curiosities.

这是一个有影响的，有启发的，迷人的主题。特别是当我们研究制陶术和音乐的关系时，它让我们对神话和现实的肖象有更多的深思。陶器中的图画通常由神占据尊贵的位置，但也流传下来关于风俗习惯的图画，引起了我们的兴趣。

After a while, his myth becomes a little much—he actually was born in a log cabin with a dirt floor—so much that we begin looking for flaws, and they're there: the bad marriage, some maladroit comments on racial inferiority.

之后不久，他的神话就有点多了（实际上他出生在一个带有泥土地面的小木屋里）以至于我们开始希望能找到些缺点，这儿就是：一桩不美满的婚姻，某些关于种族卑下的笨拙的评论。

It is interesting that all the human heads are unglazed, including that of the fabulous beast, as are the flaming manes of both animals.

有趣的是，所有的人头都无釉，包括了神话般的野兽，因为无论是动物的火红的鬃毛。

IN GREEK legend, the hydra was a many-headed monster. If a head was severed, it grew back.

希腊神话中，许德拉是一头九首怪物，它的头如果被砍，马上就会长回；其实在某些故事版本中，会很快长出两个头。

It is built around Portugal's largest leisure marina, which is home to some fabulous private yachts.

它是建立在葡萄牙最大的休闲游艇码头，这是一些神话般的私人游艇。

In this connection may be mentioned the attempt to associate Eden with the mountain in Iranian mythology, out of which rivers flow, or with the Indian mountain Maru with the four rivers.

在这方面可能会提到企图副总裁翁同山在伊朗神话中，其中河川流量，或与印度山丸与四水

Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was less homely than Mame Hucheloup.

马特洛特是个胖子，周身浑圆，红头发，尖声尖气，奇丑，丑得比神话中的任何妖精还丑，是已故于什鲁大爷生前宠幸的苏丹妃子；可是，按习俗仆人总是立在主妇后面的，和于什鲁大妈比起来，她又丑得好一点。

That's how we get the Shiva-Shakti dance of consciousness and energy to materialise and manifest intention via duality.

这是为什么我们会有关于湿婆与沙克蒂的意识与能量之舞的神话，它通过二元性将意识物质化。

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The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。