crash course--mythology 第四集 生詞+長難句分析

生詞:
Athena 雅典娜
biosphere 生物圈
nurturing vt.養(yǎng)育,培育
doting adj.溺愛的
prophesy n.預(yù)言
incest n.亂倫
重點(diǎn):
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sickle n.鐮刀
...maybe because he and Gaia knew that it would soon be curtains for Cronus.
1.be curtains (to be a situation without hope or that you cannot escape from) 絕望的處境;無法擺脫的困境;完蛋

`At the hands of his own children no less, we are going to see this prophesy.
1.no less 依舊

`the?goth phase?逆反期

`His purpose was that none but he of the lordly celestial should have the royal station among the immortals
1.從句部分可看成:"none of the lordly celestial but he"
celestial n.神仙,天堂的居民

`snuck off to Crete to give birth
sneak-snuck
sneak off 偷溜

`Knowing that?he needed help to unseat his father and other Titans
unseat vt. 罷免;剝奪…的席位;使失去資格;使從座位上(或馬背上)摔下

`Like I said, this idea of the son rising up to supplant the father causing a war in heaven, is pretty common...
supplant vt. 代替;排擠掉(可用unseat替代)

`armpit

`in turn

`等同于"they assign a place to the giant"
assign 分配

`be very into ...

`rotting flesh


`dummy n.蠢貨

`nostril (Your nostrils are the two openings at the end of your nose.) 鼻孔

`are these myths just a way of justifying existing religious rituals,...
justfy 證明...合法

`But also, some of the messy, complicated, angry feelings that parents can feel towards their kids, and that kids can feel towards their parents.

