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1、3.2 Aeschyluspreserve:v.to keep or maintain 保存interplay:n.reciprocal action and reaction相互影响,相互作用Salamis:n.an island in the Saronic Gulf,Greece 萨拉米斯epitaph:n.a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person 碑文,墓志铭hallowed:adj.worthy of religious veneration神圣的,神圣化的anecdote:n.short account of an
2、 incident(especially a biographical one)轶事,奇闻bald:adj.lacking hair on all or most of the scalp 秃顶的,光秃的The Persians:波斯人excessive:adj.beyond normal limits 过多的,极度的Prometheus Bound:被束缚的普罗米修斯disputable:adj.open to argument or debate 有讨论余地的,有争议的trilogy:n.a set of three literary or dramatic works 三部曲,三部剧Pr
3、ometheus Firecarrier:盗火的普罗米修斯Prometheus Unbound:解放了的普罗米修斯defy:v.resist or confront with resistance公然反抗Oresteia:俄瑞斯忒斯Agamemnon:阿伽门农Libation Bearers:奠酒人Eumenides:欧尼德斯euphemism:n.委婉语,委婉说法descendant:n.a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race 后代Atreus:n.a king of Mycenae 阿特柔斯concubine:
4、n.a woman who cohabits with an important man妾;情妇prophetic:adj.foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention 预言的lure:v.to tempt or attract by the promise of some type of reward 诱惑,引诱Aegisthus:n.a cousin to and the murderer of Agamemnon 埃癸斯托斯vengeance:n.the act of taking revenge 复仇,报仇justify:v
5、.to defend,explain,clear away,or make excuses for by reasoning 替辩护exile:v.to expel from a country 放逐,流放reunite:v.to have a reunion;unite again重聚,团聚avenging spirit:ph.复仇精神the Furies:n.the snake-haired goddesses of vengeance 复仇女神kindred:n.group of people related by blood or marriage 家族matricidal:adj.弑
6、母的track sb.down:ph.追捕Areopagus:n.the hill to the northwest of the Acropolis in Athens 战神山(圣山)prosecutor:n.an official conducting criminal prosecutions 检察官the votes were tied,an evenly split vote:ph.投票不分胜负,平分秋色deciding:adj.the cognitive process of reaching a decision 决定性的acquit:v.to pronounce not gui
7、lty of criminal charges 无罪释放ballot:n.a choice that is made to support someone 投票retaliatory:adj.of or relating to or having the nature of retribution 报复的sophistication:n.复杂巧妙;世故bold:adj.fearless and daring 大胆的unconventional:adj.not conventional or conformist 非传统的,不落俗套的extensive:adj.large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity 大量的imagery:n.the ability to form mental images of things or events 意象,比喻sheer:adj.纯粹的1