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英语故事带翻译：普罗米修斯
There once lived a race of huge giants called Titans.
These giants were fierce, violent, and lawless-always
fighting among themselves and against Zeus, the king of the
gods.
One of the Titans, whose name was Prometheus, was wiser
than the rest. He often thought about what would be likely to
happen in the future.
One day, Prometheus said to his brother Titans, "What is
the use of wasting so much strength? In the end, wisdom and
forethought will win. If we are going to fight against the
gods, let us choose a leader and stop quarrelling among
ourselves."
The Titans answered him by a shower of great rocks and
uprooted trees.
Prometheus, after escaping unhurt, said to his younger
brother, "Epimetheus, we can do nothing among these Titans.
If they keep on, they will tear the earth to pieces. Let us
go and help Zeus to overcome them."
Epimetheus agreed to this, and the two brothers went over
to Zeus, who called the gods together and began a terrible
battle. The Titans tore up enormous boulders and cast them at
the gods, while Zeus hurled his thunderbolts and his
lightenings in all directions. Soon the sky was a sheet of
flame, the sea boiled, the earth trembled, and the forests
took fire and began to burn.
At last the gods-partly by the help of the wise counsel
of Prometheus-conquered the Titans, took them to the ends of
the earth, and imprisoned them in a deep underground cavern.
Neptune, the sea-god, made strong bronze gates with heavy
bolts and bars, to keep the giants down, while Zeus sent
Briareus and his brothers, three giants with fifty heads and
a hundred hands each, to stand guard over them.
All but one of the Titans who had fought against the gods
were imprisoned in this cavern. This one who was not shut in
with the others was Atlas, whose enormous strength was
greater than that of his brothers, while his character was
less quarrelsome. He was made to stand and hold up the sky on
his head and hands.
As the Titans could now make no more trouble, there was
comparative peace and quiet on the earth. Nevertheless, Zeus
said that, although the men who remained on the earth were
not so strong as the Titans, they were foolish and wicked
race. He declared that he would destroy them-sweep them away,
and have done with them, forever.
When their king said this, none of the gods dared to say
a word in defence of mankind. But Prometheus, the Titan, who
was earth-born himself, and loved these men of the earth,
bagged Zeus so earnestly to shae them, that Zeus consented to
do so.
At this time, men lived in dark gloomy caves. Their
friend, Prometheus taught them to build simple houses, which
were much more comfortable than the caves had been. This was
a great step forward. but men need
ed more help yet from the Titan. The beasts in the
forests, and the great birds that build their nests on the
rocks were strong; but men were weak. The lion had sharp
claws and teeth; the eagle had wings; the turtle had a hard
shell; but man, although he stood upright with his face
toward the stars, had no weapon with which he could defend
himself.
Prometheus said that man should have Zeus's wonderful
flower of fire, which shone so brightly in the sky. So he
took a hollow reed, went up to Olympus, stole the red flower
of fire, and brought it down to earth in his reed.
After this, all the other creatures were afraid of man,
for this red flower had made him strong than they. Man dug
iron out of the earth and by the help of his new fire made
weapons that were sharper than the lion's teeth; he tamed the
wild cattle by the fear of it, yoked them together, and
taught them how to draw the plough; he sharpened strong
stakes, hardening them in its heat, and set them around his
house as a defence from his enemies; he did many other things
besides with the red flower that Prometheus had made to
blossom at the end of the reed.
Zeus, sitting on his throne, saw with alarm how strong
man was becoming. One day he discovered the theft of his
shining red flower, and knew tat Promethwus was the thief. He
was greatly displeased with this act.
"Prometheus loves man too well," said he, "he shall be
punished." Then he called his two slaves, Strength and Force,
and told them to take Prometheus and bind him fast to a great
rock in the lonely Caucasian Mountains. At the same time he
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