經典古希臘神話故事：火和第一個人（雙語）

　　Fire and the First man

　　火和第一個人

The Greeks told stories to explain how things came to be. The first animals and the first man were made by two giants who had been on the side of the gods in the war with Cronus

希臘人用故事來解釋萬物是怎樣生成的。第一批動物和第一個人是由兩個人巨人創造出來的，這兩個巨人曾在對抗克洛諾斯的戰鬥中站在神的一邊。

Prometheus,a cheerful giant ,ant his brother were told create birds ,beasts and etheus let his brother make the birds brother was easy going ,and gave them many gifts .

普羅米修斯，一位快樂的巨人，和他的兄弟被告知去創造鳥、獸和人。普羅米修斯讓他的兄弟創造鳥和獸。他的兄弟是個隨和的人，給了鳥和獸許多禮物。

“Have you anything left for man ?”asked Prometheus.

“Sorry,said his brother .I have given most of the good things away .”

Then I’ll try to get fire for him ,”said Prometeus .

“你沒留下點什麼給人類嗎?”普羅米修斯問道。

“對不起，”他的兄弟說，“我已經給出了大部分美好的東西。”

“那麼我將把火送給人類。”普羅米修斯說。

Fire was a great power ,and Zeus had said that it must not live was sacred to the gods etheus was truly noble,and did not want man ,who was made of clay and water to be weak.

火是一種巨大的力量，並且宙斯曾說過絕不能讓它離開天國。火對諸神而言是神聖的。普羅米修斯非常高尚，他不想讓用粘土和水做出人類過於弱小。

He went up to heaven and lit a torch near the brought the torch back to earth and gave it to the first man.

他升入天國，在太陽邊上點燃了火把。他把火把帶回到地面給了世上第一個人。

Zeus was so angry when he found out about this that he tied pronetheus to a great rock on a ture came and ate his liver,and Prometheus wanted to die and his Zens made the liver grow back each night,and every day the vulture ate it .

宙斯發現這件事情以後，非常震怒，於是他把普羅米修斯綁在了山上一塊巨大的岩石上。一隻兀鷹來啄食他的肝，普羅米修斯想以死來結束痛苦。但是宙斯讓他的肝每晚又復原，每天兀鷹都會來啄食。