In the game world, these horrible centaurs are standing around in a field, and you get a quest step that says 'Go kill ten centaurs.

在游戏世界中，这些可怕的半人马站在野外，你得到任务步骤说“杀掉10只半人马”。

The Centaurs got horribly drunk and attempted to rape the women, while their leader tried to carry off the bride.

让半人马喝醉了酒。烂醉的半人马企图强奸妇女，他们的首领则想掠走新娘。

Centaurs-half horse, half human-are attacking the Lapiths, who are a legendary Greek people.

半人马正在攻击传说中的希腊民族拉庇泰人。

It was long assumed that they were imaginary, like the cyclops and centaurs.

很长一段时间，人们都认为他们都是虚构的，跟单眼巨人和半人马无异。

I mean, we don't want to live in a culture that the Centaurs - the half-men half-horse run, we don't want to live in Centaur World!

我们不愿意生活在半人马的世界，

In the new world of ideas, the species of centaurs collaborates with the more modest species of metropolitan man.

在这个观念杂糅的新世界中，半人马和较之谦逊的世俗之人共同协作。

Her handmaid Irri and the young archers of her khas were fluid as centaurs, but Viserys still struggled with the short stirrups and the flat saddle.

女仆伊丽和她卡斯里的年轻弓箭手们行动矫健得像半人马，但韦赛里斯还很不适应短马镫和平马鞍。

So, in the metopes, when we see Greeks fighting Centaurs, these mythical battles stand proxy for the real-life struggle between Greeks and Persians.

在排档间饰上，我们看到希腊人大战半人马，这场神话中的战役代表了现实中希 腊与波斯间的战争。

The struggle against the Centaurs that we see on the metopes becomes an emblem of the perpetual battle that, for the Athenians, every civilised state has to fight.

排档间饰上与半人马的战争成为一种永恒的战斗的象征。对雅典人而言，每个文明的城邦都需要战斗。

The metopes are all about battles-battles between the Olympian gods and the Giants, between Athenians and Amazons and, in the ones I want to focus on, between Lapiths and Centaurs.

这些排档间饰都与战争有关—奥林匹亚众神与巨人的战争，雅典人与亚马孙女战士的战争，以及本文将要讲述的半人马与拉庇泰人的战争。