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

从没有神庙使用过这么多神话场景，每一个都让神庙费用大增。

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

他雕塑家们正在雕刻 92 个用神庙神话场景。

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

对这些排档最好一种诠释，便是将英勇战斗视为确保秩序手段。

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

在排档上，我们看到希腊人大战半人马，这场神话中战役代表了现实中希 腊与波斯战争。

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.

在建筑物四面柱子顶端，环绕着九十二幅系列方形石雕，被称为排档，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.

排档上与半人马战争成为一种永恒战斗象征。对雅典人而言，每个文明城邦都需要战斗。

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.

这些排档都与战争有关—奥林匹亚众神与巨人战争，雅典人与亚马孙女战士战争，以及本文将要讲述半人马与拉庇泰人战争。