古希腊神话之赫拉克勒斯(含注释).doc

Notes to the Story of Hercules:00:10A man tormented by a horrifying sin.一个被可怕的罪孽折磨得痛苦不堪的人。00:14Driven to take on twelve impossible challenges00:17in a quest for redemption.他被迫去完成12项不可能成功的任务，以此来实现对自身的赎罪。00:59It breaks de surface.01:02a giant serpent with not one,01:06but nine dragon-like heads.它越出水面，这是一条巨蛇，长有九个龙头形状的脑袋。01:10It spews poisonous vapours and then eats its victims alive.它能喷出毒气，可以把它的猎物活活吃掉。02:04He was a womanizer, he was a heavy drinker,02:07and he was an extraordinary athlete.克拉克勒斯能够迷倒无数女性，他酒量惊人，体格无比健壮。02:32And Hercules is the consummate hero in Greek society.克拉克勒斯是古希腊时代技艺高超的大英雄。02:58His story begins with Zeus, the sex-crazed king of the gods03:03having an illicit affair.他的故事因恣情纵欲的众神之王宙斯的一次偷情开始。03:12Classical mythology is loaded with stories03:15of gods who impregnate mortal women03:17and give birth to gods or demi-gods.古典神话传说总是充满了这样的故事，神使凡间女子怀孕生子，或者是神灵或者是半神半人。03:44Hercules would grow up to be Greeces model hero.赫拉克勒斯将成长为古希腊的英雄典范。04:11Zeus fathers countless children with a variety of mortal women.宙斯使许多凡间女子为其生下无数的子女。04:29Its almost as if she knew that he was going to challenge her favour04:32in heaven in some way.赫拉似乎知道赫拉克勒斯将要以某种方式挑战她在天堂的权威。05:32Her vendetta against Hercules will determine the course of his life,05:37from the cradle to the grave.赫拉与赫拉克勒斯的世仇夙愿将会决定他的一生的命运，从生到死。06:05They uncover a buried temple beneath an ordinary residential loft.他们在一栋普通的居民阁楼的下面发现了一处被埋葬的神庙。06:14Around the altar are hundreds of ceramic vases and small statues.在这处祭坛的四周有几百个陶瓶和小型雕塑。06:47The ancient text says that this shrine was erected on the precise spot06:52of Hercules birth. Could the hero have been real?古代的文献记载说，这处神殿就位于赫拉克勒斯的出生之地。这位大英雄是真实存在的吗？07:08A man-god straddling two worlds, the human and the supernatural.半神半人的赫拉克勒斯游走于人类与神祇两个世界。07:39In fact, there seems to have been a kind of schizophrenic quality to his make-up.赫拉克勒斯的性格中似乎有某种精神分裂症存在。07:45He was half-human, and half divine, and yet he had a father07:50who would not protect him from the terrible trials and tribulations07:56that Hera inflicted upon him. He was left alone,08:00suspended between heaven and earth,08:03and having nowhere to go.他是半人半神，有一位伟大的父亲天神宙斯，却不能得到保护，不能免于赫拉为其带来的折磨和苦难。他被抛弃在天与地之间，哪里都不能去。08:10Desperate for some semblance of normalcy08:13Hercules marries a beautiful princess who bears him two sons.赫拉克勒斯十分渴望正常的生活状态，于是他娶了一位美丽的公主，还有了两个儿子。08:19But his domestic bliss is short-lived.08:24His nemesis Hera soon returns08:27determined to make sure he never knows happiness.但是他的家庭幸福真的是太短暂了。赫拉带给他的报应注定决定了他将永远不知道什么是幸福。08:52In the dead of night, Hercules commits an unspeakable horror.09:08When Hercules wakes up from this madness,09:13from this ravenous madness,09:19he finds himself covered in the blood of his own family.在一个夜深人静的夜晚，赫拉克勒斯犯下了一个无法言说的罪孽。当他从极度疯狂中醒来的时候，他发现自己身上沾满了妻儿的鲜血。09:55When his blind rage subsides it is replaced with intense remorse,10:00a horrible anguish that will plague him forever.当他的狂怒逐渐平息后，他满心悔恨，痛苦无比，他的一生因此饱受折磨。10:16This is a little bit like a Christian penance10:19where you do certain good acts on the earth10:22in other to make up for bad things that you might have done.这有点类似于基督教徒般的自我惩罚，也就是为了弥补你可能犯下的罪孽，你要在人间做善事行义举。10:32And this is the very pivot of Hercules whole life.这就是赫拉克勒斯一生的主要内容。10:36To purify his soul, Hercules will have to survive the most excruciating10:41series of challenges ever confronted by man or the gods.为了净化自己的灵魂，赫拉克勒斯必须要在面对一系列曾经由人或神面对的难以忍受的挑战面前成功的全身而退。11:02Mythologys superhero, Hercules, has just butchered his wife and children11:08under a spell cast by his stepmother, Hera.11:13Now, the strongest man on earth must atone for his crime.赫拉克勒斯，神话中的超级英雄，在自己的继母赫拉的诅咒下，手刃了自己的妻子和儿子。现在，世间最强的这个人必须要为自己的罪行赎罪。11:552500 years ago, a priestess stood in a trance-like state12:00as mysterious vapours rose up around her.2500年前，一位女祭司随着神秘的气体在周围缓缓升起，她也开始进入精神恍惚的状态。12:21A recent geological survey has shown that the Delphi temple12:25sits precisely on the intersection of two fault lines.最近的一次地质调查发现，德尔斐神庙恰好就坐落在两条地质断层线的交汇点上。12:35The new evidence suggests that12:37movements of the earth around these faults12:39might actually have released ethylene gas12:42that would have leaked through these cracks in the earth.新证据表明，断层线附近地壳的运动也许正好释放出乙烯，这些气体沿着地壳裂缝渗出。12:57So basically the Oracle of Delphi was a stoner13:02that everyone in ancient Greek society trusted a lot.所以，古希腊社会中人人都十分迷信的德尔斐神使基本上就是个瘾君子。13:07At Delphi, the Oracle tells Hercules that only a terrible penance13:12can absolve him of his crimes.在德尔斐神庙，神使告诉赫拉克勒斯只有彻底的自我惩罚才能洗清他的罪行。14:31He will need to purify himself, to purify his hands,14:34to purify his soul, later on, of the grievous crime he has committed.他需要净化他自己，净化他的双手，净化他的灵魂，以及净化他所犯下的滔天的罪行。15:22The problem for Hercules is even though hes a magnificent archer15:26the Lions skin is impervious to his arrows.赫拉克勒斯所面对的难题是，尽管他是个伟大的射手，但是涅墨亚狮子的皮毛是弓箭根本无法穿透的。16:15Now, he lays out a series of even more monstrous challenges16:19sure to put an end to the hero.现在，欧律斯透斯国王列出了一系列更加可怕的挑战，决心置英雄于死地。16:54The second Labour challenges Hercules16:56to kill another monstrous freak of nature,17:00the dreaded nine-headed Hydra.赫拉克勒斯面临的第二项挑战就是去杀掉自然界另一个可怕的怪兽，长有九个头的许德拉（堤丰与厄喀德那之子，狗身蛇头的水蛇）。17:21Decapitating the monster one head at a time.赫拉克勒斯一次就砍掉怪兽一个头。17:49Against this enemy, his success hinges on more than muscle.为了战胜敌人，他需要不仅仅依靠自己的力量。17:55Hercules grabs a torch and scorches the skin of the beast.赫拉克勒斯拿着火把把这个怪兽的皮烧焦。18:00He comes up with the idea of burning off the stumps.他想出了一个烧焦怪兽头部残根的办法。18:03To cauterize the neck, so that a head cant grow back in there.把颈部灼烧之后，头就无法再长出来了。18:10With a final thrust, Hercules severs the last head from the body.随着最后一剑，赫拉克勒斯斩掉了怪兽的最后一个头。18:52Two Labours conquered. Like a fighter in training,18:55Hercules is honing the skills necessary to survive in a hostile world -19:01physical strength, mental toughness, and relentless endurance.已经征服了两个挑战。赫拉克勒斯就像一名受训的斗士，不断锤炼着自己在可怕的荒野中生存所必需的技能强健的体魄，不屈的精神，无尽的耐力。19:14In his next two Labours, Hercules conquers19:18another pair of Natures most formidable beasts:19:21the Golden Stag of Artemis,19:24an animal so fast it could outrun an arrow in flight.19:30And the vicious man-eating Boar.在接下来的两项苦役中，赫拉克勒斯要征服大自然中最可怕的两个野兽：阿尔忒弥斯的赤牡鹿，一个可以跑得比弓箭还快的动物，以及可怕的食人野猪。20:04Raw sewage.20:07For his fifth Labour, Hercules must take on a dirty job20:12that symbolises the foul side of human nature.天然污物的清理。对于这第五项苦役，赫拉克勒斯要干的就是清除象征着人类本性中的罪恶的东西。20:16He must clean out a massive complex of manure-filled stables.20:21This Labour is different from the others because it involves menial labour,20:27in a way that Hercules hadnt really submitted to before.他必须清除掉粪便遍地的厩廊。这项苦役不同于以往，因为这是一项枯燥而卑下的工作，赫拉克勒斯以前从来都没有忍受承担过。20:50Hercules notices that these repulsive stables lie between two powerful rivers,20:55and he gets an idea.赫拉克勒斯注意到，这些令人作呕的厩廊位于两条大河之间，于是他有了一个主意。21:13One Labour at a time, Hercules is making amends for killing his family.又完成了一项任务，赫拉克勒斯为杀害自己的家人又做了一次弥补。21:45Intriguing historical clues suggest Hercules was not a myth21:50but a real hero.引人入胜的历史线索表明，赫拉克勒斯并不仅仅是一个传说，而是一位真实的英雄。24:12There are hundreds of games around the Greek world,24:15but the Olympics were the finest and the most prestigious.古希腊世界有许多运动会，但是奥林匹克运动会却是最好的最有盛名的一个。24:19If you won at the Olympic Games24:21it was being elevated, in a way, amongst men.如果你在奥林匹克运动会上获胜，你在男人中的地位也就在某种程度上得到了提升。25:31Reliefs salvaged from the exterior walls depict his 12 Labours.25:36He was revered by all athletes25:38and one measured oneself up against Hercules.抢救出的外墙浮雕描绘出了赫拉克勒斯完成的12项苦役。他为所有运动员尊敬，每位运动员为自己可以与赫拉克勒斯相提并论而感到骄傲。26:07In his 6th Labour, Hercules must face a flock of ferocious man-eating birds26:13who symbolise mankinds unreachable goals.在第六项任务中，赫拉克勒斯面对的是一群凶猛危险的食人恶鸟，它们象征着人类无法企及的目标。26:17He drives them off with his poisonous arrows26:19and reaches an important milestone,26:21the half-way mark in his 12 Labours.他用他的那些毒箭把它们驱赶走，这就取得了里程碑一样的胜利，他的12项苦役已经完成了一半。26:44The next three Labours will take Hercules beyond Greece for the first time26:49and pit him against powerful foreign enemies.接下来的三项苦役将带领赫拉克勒斯第一次走出希腊，使他与强大的外国敌人战斗。27:20For his 7th Labour, Hercules travels to the island nation of Crete,27:25to find and capture the prized Bull of the King, Minos.第七项苦役将带领赫拉克勒斯来到克里特岛，他将寻找并捕获米诺斯国王最为珍视的公牛。28:15He tracks down King Minos Bull, wrestles it into submission,28:23and sails it back home.他追踪着米诺斯国王公牛的足迹，最终与其扭打在一起并将其制服，最后载着它乘船胜利返回故乡。28:52But at this point we start to see a darker side of Hercules.28:56And it maybe foreshadows things to come.但是就在此时，我们将会看到赫拉克勒斯并不光彩的一面。这也许是预示着一些事情的出现。29:00In his next set of Labours,29:02Hercules confronts two foreign rulers who pose a threat to Greece.29:08First he targets Diomedes,29:10the tyrannical king of Bistonia.在接下来的两项任务中，赫拉克勒斯将挑战威胁希腊的两大外国强敌。首先，它将迎战狄俄墨得斯，皮斯托纳国残暴的国王。29:38This is the pivotal moment.29:40For the first time hes actually drawn human blood.这是一个关键的时刻。赫拉克勒斯第一次使人类流血。29:46The killing spree continues in his next Labour,29:49where Hercules slays the Amazons,29:52a ferocious tribe of female warriors,29:54after stealing the belt of their leader, Hippolyta.杀戮狂欢在下一个任务中继续进行着。赫拉克勒斯在偷走了残暴的女性勇士部落阿玛宗人的首领希波吕忒的腰带后，将整个部落灭掉。30:53In his Labours, theres kind of a crescendo of difficulty.赫拉克勒斯面对的困难挑战变得越来越强。31:59In his 10th Labour, Hercules sets out to capture the Cattle of the Geryon.32:04A vicious monster with three sets of legs,32:07three heads,32:09and a lethal pedigree.赫拉克勒斯面对的第十项挑战就是要带回革律翁的牛群。革律翁是一个长有三头六脚的可怕的怪物，而且他还有致命的家族血统。33:21The Straits of Gibraltar are known to the ancient Greeks33:23as the Pillars of Hercules.直布罗陀海峡被古希腊人称之为赫拉克勒斯柱。33:29To the people of the ancient world33:32the Pillars of Hercules were not just a gateway into an unexplored ocean,33:38they were a portal between reality and myth.对于古希腊人而言，赫拉克勒斯柱不仅仅是进入未知大洋的一道门户，同时也是由现实进入神话的入口。34:18So we took samples and sent them away for radio-carbon dating,34:23and theyre all perfect matches within each other,34:26they all seem to point to a period of about 400 years,34:29from about 800 BC to 400 BC.于是我们拿了一些样本送走，用碳年代测定法去做测定，它们似乎都是属于同一个时代的物品，上下不超过四百年，也就是公元前800年到公元前400年那个时代。35:17The monster comes out fighting,35:19hurling huge boulders down the mountain at Hercules.怪物革律翁出来应战，他愤怒的举起一块块巨石朝山下的赫拉克勒斯投掷过去。36:09This Labour parallels the biblical story of Adam and Eve.36:14There are early Christians36:16who made the comparison between the Apple of the Hesperides36:19and the Tree of Life in the Garden.第11项挑战与圣经中亚当与夏娃的故事比较接近。早期的基督教徒就曾把赫斯珀里得斯姐妹看守的金苹果的故事与伊甸园中的生命树的故事做过比较。37:11Atlas was one of the Titans.阿特拉斯是泰坦诸神之一。37:42So Hercules volunteers to hold the world while he retrieves them.37:51Atlas eventually returns with the Apples37:54but theres a catch.于是赫拉克勒斯自告奋勇在他去取回金苹果之前替他擎起世界。阿特拉斯最终把金苹果取回来了，但是产生了一个隐患。38:16Im going to pad my shoulders with my lion skin.“我打算用我的狮子皮垫在我的肩膀上。”39:27For his 12th and final Labour,39:30Hercules must find his way to the mysterious underworld of the dead,39:35Hades.39:38There he must capture Cerberus,39:41the three-headed guard dog at the gates.39:45Hercules final Labour is by far the most outrageous.赫拉克勒斯的第12项也是最后一项挑战就是必须进入神秘的死者的世界冥府。在那里他必须捕获看守地狱之门的三头之犬刻耳柏洛斯。赫拉克勒斯的最后一项任务也是最为骇人听闻的。40:36Hades agrees on one condition -40:40Hercules must overpower the beast with nothing but his fists.哈迪斯同意了，但是有一个条件赫拉克勒斯必须赤手空拳制服刻耳柏洛斯。41:41By all rights, he should finally be in peace.按理说，赫拉克勒斯最后应该内心平静了。41:59Hera holds an undying grudge against Hercules42:03for being Zeus illegitimate son.赫拉对赫拉克勒斯充满了永恒的怨恨，只因他是宙斯的私生子。42:20He builds a huge funeral pyre.42:25His life on earth ends just as he endured it.42:30In torment.赫拉克勒斯搭起了一个火葬的柴堆。他的一生在痛苦中煎熬了许久后终于在此画上了句号。43:03He invites him to join the immortals on Mount Olympus,43:08and his nemesis, Hera, finally relents.宙斯请赫拉克勒斯来到奥林匹亚山成为神祇中的一员，而他的宿敌赫拉也最终变得宽容了。43:37In the end, Hercules is resurrected,43:40and joins his father in the eternal kingdom.43:44It is an ending with an eerie similarity to another divine mortal -43:49Jesus Christ.最后，赫拉克勒斯复活了，与他的父亲宙斯一起住在天国。这个故事的结局与另一位神人耶稣基督怪异而令人恐惧的故事结局十分类似。44:27Theyve all faced monumental tasks44:29that they dont think theyll be able to complete.世间的凡人也都面临着很多艰巨的挑战，他们也都认为自己无法完成。The Story of Hercules (Clash of the Gods)00:02He is the greatest action hero in mythology.00:06His name is Hercules.00:10A man tormented by a horrifying sin.00:14Driven to take on twelve impossible challenges00:17in a quest for redemption.00:21To us, it is myth, but to the ancients it was reality.00:26A legend based on an actual warrior.00:29Filled with hidden codes about the real world.00:33This is the truth behind the myth of Hercules.00:51In a strange and unfamiliar world00:54something stirs just below the water line.00:59It breaks de surface.01:02a giant serpent with not one,01:06but nine dragon-like heads.01:10It spews poisonous vapours and then eats its victims alive.01:22But today the monster has met his match.01:27The strongest hero who ever lived.01:30Mythologys ideal man. Hercules.01:37He is the most popular hero in history.01:41A half-god, half-mortal with superhuman strength01:46who is destined to rid the Greek world of evil.01:49But thats only the beginning of his story.01:53Hercules was something special and at the same time01:56extremely ordinary. He was a man of the people.02:00He was a little bit like Babe Ruth in American mythology.02:04He was a womanizer, he was a heavy drinker,02:07and he was an extraordinary athlete.02:09He was a little bit like a god but he was very definitely a human being.02:16Today a lot of people think heroes have superhuman strength,02:20they get the girl, they have superhuman powers,02:22can fly through the air.02:24Its a different conception in the Greek world.02:26A hero is someone who has superhuman strength but someone who has to suffer.02:32And Hercules is the consummate hero in Greek society.02:36Hes destined to suffer more than anyone else.02:42In his myth, Hercules confronts a legion of terrifying enemies,02:47and endures suffering on a scale no human has ever known.02:58His story begins with Zeus, the sex-crazed king of the gods03:03having an illicit affair.03:07Hercules is the son of Zeus and a mortal woman named Alcmene.03:12Classical mythology is loaded with stories03:15of gods who impregnate mortal women03:17and give birth to gods or demi-gods.03:20So this demi-god idea means that this person has03:25some features that are very godly, some divine powers but, at the same time,03:30he is mortal, he can die.03:32I suspect that the Greeks invented this idea03:35because they wanted to reach the gods as much as possible,03:38to create images of themselves that are closer and closer to the gods.03:44Hercules would grow up to be Greeces model hero.03:49But he has one powerful enemy who wants to see him destroyed.03:54Zeus wife, the goddess Hera.03:58Shes the queen of the goddesses and she has wonderful beauty,04:04shes supremely intelligent, shes mighty,04:06but shes also exceedingly jealous04:08because Zeus is always running after other women.04:11Zeus fathers countless children with a variety of mortal women.04:16And Hera hates them all.04:18But she decides it is Hercules who must pay the ultimate price04:22for the sins committed by Zeus.04:25Heras hatred of Hercules is actually very, very irrational.04:29Its almost as if she knew that he was going to challenge her favour04:32in heaven in some way.04:35She knew there was something about Hercules that was different04:37than the other children and maybe she felt threatened by this,04:40but every day of his life he seemed to have been paying for this hatred of hers.04:47One night, while Hercules is still a baby,04:51Hera sends two poisonous snakes into his nursery.05:01Hes got one snake in each hand and hes squeezing them to death.05:05A little tiny infant squeezing to death these two giant serpents.05:09Everyone knew at that point that05:10there was something a little bit different about Hercules.05:14This is one of the reasons why Hera will hate him,05:16because she cannot kill him.05:18She can make his life wretched but she cannot kill him05:21because destiny says he will become immortal.05:25And even a god has to obey destiny.05:29But Hera is just getting started.05:32Her vendetta against Hercules will determine the course of his life,05:37from the cradle to the grave.05:40So goes the myth.05:42But what is the link to reality?05:54February 2004, in a Greek town called Thebes05:59archaeologists discover stunning evidence06:01that sheds new light on the story of Hercules birth.06:05They uncover a buried temple beneath an ordinary residential loft.06:10In its centre are the remains of an altar.06:14Around the altar are hundreds of ceramic vases and small statues.06:20They all portray one thing.06:22Hercules.06:26After the discovery, researchers linked the findings to a 2500 year-old text06:32that describes a mysterious house of Hercules at Thebes06:36just outside the gates of the ancient city.06:40The description and the site match perfectly,06:44but theres more.06:47The ancient text says that this shrine was erected on the precise spot06:52of Hercules birth. Could the hero have been real?06:57The hunt for clues leads back to the myth.07:04