crash course--mythology 第四集 生词+长难句分析

生词：

Athena 雅典娜

biosphere 生物圈

nurturing vt.养育，培育

doting adj.溺爱的

prophesy n.预言

incest n.乱伦

重点：

03：50，

sickle n.镰刀

...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) 绝望的处境；无法摆脱的困境；完蛋

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

1.no less 依旧

`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.从句部分可看成:"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. 罢免；剥夺…的席位；使失去资格；使从座位上（或马背上）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；排挤掉(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.蠢货

`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 证明...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.