来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第3集 第3集》

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  in the ancient world, death was nothing in the worst sense of the word.
  古代人而言皆亦然 死亡是最恐怖的
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  You just went somewhere and there was nothing. There was darkness.
  你去了一个什么都没有的虚空 满目黑暗
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  There was nothing at all.
  真正完全的虚空
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  Some few people who had sinned terribly
  一些罪孽深重
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  and earned the wrath of the gods would,
  触怒神灵的人
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  indeed, be tortured in some special and typically Greek,
  的确会受到一些希腊式的特殊刑罚
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  interesting way. You remember Tantalus.
  这很有意思 你们记得坦塔罗斯
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  He had done a terrible thing and there he stood forever
  他做了坏事 被惩罚永远站在水中
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  with his feet in the water below, and above him a tree with grapes
  头上是一棵挂满葡萄的葡萄树
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  hanging down, and dying of thirst.
  他口渴异常
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  And every time he went down to try to sip some of the water,
  但每每当他弯腰汲水 水就退却
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  the water receded, and anytime he reached up for the grapes,
  每每当他伸手摘果