They offered sacrifices to the gods.

他们向众神献上祭品。

Sacrifices were made to propitiate the gods.

人们供奉祭品以求神灵息怒。

The pharaohs, after all, were considered gods and therefore immortal.

法老毕竟被当作神，因而长生不死。

The Maya believed in many gods.

玛雅人信奉许多神。

In China, guests are almost like gods.

在中国，客人就像上帝一样。

This was all that remained of our former gods.

这是我们以前的神明留下的所有一切。

They worshipped the gods all the more after the incident.

事件发生后，他们更加崇拜神灵了。

Did all the gods of the olden times pass through the large saloons?

古代所有的神都是从那些大厅里走过的吗？

He decides to destroy the gods and he is thwarted by a water god named Ea.

他决定毁灭众神，却被一位名叫 Ea 的水神所挫败。

In some way, the elite had associated themselves with the power of the gods.

在某种程度上，精英们把自己与神的力量联系在一起。

Tiamat and Apsu are disturbed by the din and the tumult of these younger gods.

Tiamat 和 Apsu 被这些年轻的神灵的喧嚣和骚动所打扰。

In Scandinavian mythology the rainbow was a bridge between the gods and the earth.

在斯堪的纳维亚神话中，彩虹是神与大地之间的桥梁。

Monks in orange robes offer flowers and food to the gods and produce haunting sounds on conch shells.

身穿橘袍的僧人向神灵献上鲜花和食物，并在海螺壳上发出萦绕不去的声音。

It seems that humankind is to be destroyed because they irritate the gods with their tumult and noise.

似乎是人类是要被毁灭的，因为人类的骚乱和噪音惹怒众神。

Gold was considered divine in ancient Greece and was used to adorn temples and as an offering to the gods.

在古希腊，黄金被认为是神圣的，被用来装饰庙宇和作为对神的祭品。

In the earliest version, the gods destroy the human race because its clamor had been so disturbing to them.

在最早的版本中，众神毁灭了人类，因为人类的喧闹声对他们来说太令人烦躁了。

In Greek mythology, it was associated with Iris, the goddess who brought messages from the gods on Mount Olympus.

在希腊神话中，它与艾丽斯女神有关，她从奥林匹斯山上的众神那里带来信息。

The dancers in these ceremonies wear masks, headdresses, and costumes that they believe are necessary to influence gods.

参加这些仪式的舞者戴着面具、头饰和服饰，他们认为这些是影响神的必要条件。

The rainbow is another ancient and universal symbol, often representing the connection between human beings and their gods.

彩虹是另一个古老而普遍的象征，通常代表人类和他们的神之间的联系。

I am singing the starry sky and the hosts that sang high in air, and the gods that were suddenly destroyed in their own shrines.

我在歌唱星空，在空中高歌的主人，以及在自己的神殿中突然被摧毁的神灵。

Statues were created not for their decorative effect but to play a primary role in the cults of the gods, the king, and the dead.

人们不是为了装饰效果而创作了这些雕像，而是为了它们能在祭祀神灵、国王和逝者这一方面发挥主要作用。

They created figurines which were small statues and which depicted animals or gods or any shape that the clay could be moulded into.

他们创造出了塑像，也就是一些小雕像，描绘动物、神明或任何黏土能塑成的形状。

Milton intends to soar above the wheeling poles of the visible world and describe the otherwise invisible comings and goings of the gods.

弥尔顿想屹立于现实世界旋转的柱子之上，去描绘无形世界中神的来来往往。

Death and disease are consigned to the realm of these evil demons or these impure evil spirits, but they are siblings with the good gods.

死亡和疾病归被托付给这些恶神和邪灵管，但是这些恶神往往和善神是兄弟姐妹。

I can spend my later years, the twilight of my life, turning to the things about the gods, "performing sacrifices commanded by the gods".

我可以在我往后的光阴，我生命的暮年，转向服伺众神，“执行众神所要求的祭典”。

Some scholars believe that Yahweh was originally a tribal deity—a god whom the Hebrews worshiped and considered superior to the pagan gods.

一些学者认为耶和华最初是一个部落神——希伯来人崇拜的神，并认为他比异教神更优越。

The myth also reminds us that these advances have come at a price: as a punishment for Prometheus' crime, the gods created Pandora, and they gave her a box filled with evils and curses.

这个神话也提醒我们，这些进步是有代价的：作为对普罗米修斯罪行的惩罚，众神创造了潘多拉，并给了她一个装满邪恶和诅咒的盒子。

When a religious leader started chanting with echoes bouncing off the stonewalls over and over again, it must've seemed like a whole chorus of other voices, spirits of Gods maybe, joining in.

当一位宗教领袖开始吟唱时，回声敲打着石墙上一遍又一遍地回响，这一定像是其他所有声音的合奏，也许是神的灵魂也加入了其中。

This movie describes a brave hero who is fearless to fight against all Gods... Children, come and see it!

这部电影描述了一个勇敢的英雄无畏地对抗所有神明……孩子们，来看看它！

In the program, I'm moving from cows to corn but I'm staying with the gods.

在节目里，我将把注意力从牛身上转移到玉米上，我与诸神同在。