No temple has ever used so many metopes before, and each scene adds to the temple's ballooning expenses.

从没有神庙使过这么多神话场景，每一都让神庙的费大增。

His sculptors are carving 92 mythical scenes, or metopes, to decorate the temple.

他的雕塑家们正在雕刻 92 装饰神庙的神话场景。

I mean, the best interpretation of the metopes, is that you see the heroic conflicts as necessary in order to ensure order.

对这些排档饰最好的一种诠释，便是将英勇的战斗视为确保秩序的必手。

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 腊与波斯的战争。

Around all four sides of the building, above the columns and easily seen by everybody approaching, was a series of 92 square relief carvings, known as metopes.

在建筑物四面柱子的顶端，环绕着九十二幅系列方形石雕，被称为排档饰，只要靠近神庙便清晰可见。

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。