As with Sisyphus, the boulder was painstakingly rolled upwards only to tumble back down again in an absurd exercise of futility.

和西西弗斯一样，巨石费力地向上滚动，结果又滚了下来，徒劳无功。

Sisyphus woke up in the underworld.

西绪弗斯在地狱醒来。

SISYPHUS was lucky.

Sisyphus是幸运的。

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain!

我让西西弗斯留在山下！

All Sisyphus' silent joy is contained therein.

西西弗无声的全部快乐就在于此。

Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld.

人们并没有谈到西西弗斯在地狱里的情况。

You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero.

你已经明白了，西西弗斯便是这荒谬的英雄。

SISYPHUS was lucky. He could have wound up on the Basel committee.

(西西佛思)是幸运的。他本来可能会沦落到巴塞尔委员会。

Like Sisyphus, I can never roll the stone up the hill of my expectations.

就像希腊神话里的西西弗斯，我总是不能如期望般把石头推上山去。

Who would blame Sisyphus and jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!"

谁会责备西绪福斯和冉阿让，如果他们说：“受够了！”

If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was wisest and most prudent of mortals.

荷马说，西西弗是最终要死的人中最聪明最谨慎的人。

Like what Albert Camus tried to propagate in his essay, The Myth of Sisyphus.

那才是生命的本质，就像法国作家阿尔贝。加缪试图在他的作品《西西弗的神话》中要传播的思想一样。

But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks.

但西西弗斯教会我们以更高的忠诚否定诸神，举起重石。

If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and most prudent of mortals.

假使我们相信荷马，西西弗斯就是一个最聪明和最谨慎的凡人了。

Again I fancy Sisyphus returning toward his rock, and th sorrow was in the beginning.

我还想象西西弗又回头走向他的巨石，痛苦又重新开始。

It is said also that Sisyphus, being near to death, rashly wanted to test his wife's love.

还有人说，西西弗在临死前冒失地要检验他妻子对他的爱情。

Trying to get your Good Work done can feel like Sisyphus rolling his rock up the mountain, a never-ending task.

做好工作的感觉像是不停的把岩石推向山顶，一项永远不会结束的任务。

Modern western Sisyphus spirits gave birth to the new tragedy consciousness of western modernistic literature.

现代的西方西绪福斯精神孕育了西方现代主义文学的新悲剧意识。

Recovery of God, the stone of Sisyphus forever pushing uphill, is it a symbol of the eternal: the quest for a perfect, not perfect.

夸父追日，西西弗斯永远推石上山，则是它永恒的象征：追求完美，而不是达到完美。

Then Sisyphus watches the stone rush down in a few moments toward tlower world whence he will have to push it up again toward the summit.

然后西绪弗斯看着石头滚回原处，他也将重新从那里将石头推向顶峰。

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight.

作者 阿尔贝·加缪（法） 神祇们处罚西西弗斯，叫他不停地把一块巨石推上山顶去，由于它本身的重量，巨石又从山顶上滚下来。

Then Sisyphus watches the stone rush down in a few moments toward that lower world whence he will have to push it up again toward the summit.

西西弗斯于是看到巨石在几秒钟内又向着下面的世界滚下，而他则必须把这巨石重新推上山顶。

Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent.

西西弗斯，这诸神中的无产者，这进行无效劳役而又进行反叛的无产者，他完全清楚自己所处的悲惨境地：在他下山时，他想到的正是这悲惨的境地。

This determined green worm reminded me of Sisyphus in Greek mythology, who was banished to Hell after death and punished by having to roll a large rock up a mountain.

这固执坚韧的小青虫使我想起了希腊神话中的西西弗。西西弗死后被打入地狱，并被罚苦役：推石上山。

The central idea is based on the Greek methodical character Sisyphus who was forced to roll a large stone up a steep hill, which tumbles back down when it reaches the top.

科林斯王被迫将一块巨石滚上一座陡峭的山，每当石头到达山顶时又滚到了山底。

For those of you who may not remember, Sisyphus, of Greek mythology, was the guy condemned to push a boulder up a hill, watch it roll back down, and repeat this for all eternity.

有些人可能不记得希腊神话里西西弗这个人了。他将一块巨石推上山顶，看着它从山顶滚下来，然后一生重复做这件事。

The mass beside the atom; the strip of ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his potsherd.

原子旁边的庞然大物；一堵孤立的墙和一只破汤罐；一切残渣废物的触目惊心的结合；西绪福斯①在那里抛下了他的岩石，约伯也在那里抛下了他的瓦碴。