来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景 第4集 第4集》

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  the story goes that Mattathias was in his village
  故事是这样讲的 玛他提亚在他的村庄里
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  and a priest and a soldier come from jerusalem to the village,
  一个神父和一个士兵 从耶路撒冷来到村庄
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  and they're trying to force the Jews to sacrifice on an altar.
  他们想迫使犹太人在祭坛上供奉
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  Now what an altar is most of the time is
  祭坛很多时候是一个
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  do you all see this little base over there in the corner?
  看见角落里那些小基座了吗
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  There's just a little pillar that might be this high,
  大概这么高的一个小柱子
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  and to offer something--you don't actually have to
  供奉某些东西 并不是真的要
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  sacrifice a chicken or anything like that,
  供奉一只鸡或者这类东西
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  you can obviously sacrifice animals,
  当然你可以供奉牲畜
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  but you can just pour out some wine
  但你也可以只是倾倒一些酒
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  or you can pour some grain or something like that on the altar, burn it up,
  或者在祭坛上倒上一些粮食之类点燃它们
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  and that will suffice as an offering to a god, without killing an animal.
  这就可以作为神的祭品 而不用杀生