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[原创]The Colors of the Rainbow |
作者 :Cathy
| 日期 : 2006-08-01 10:04 | 阅读数: 496 |
Cathy Song 4/18/06 Period C-D Myth
The Colors of the Rainbow
The muses sang about Spectra, goddess of the sky. Spectra is a lovely goddess and the daughter of Zeus and Raina. She was believed to be even more beautiful than Aphrodite. In fact, more men wanted to marry her than any other women on Earth. She was afraid of her future and went to the oracle of Delphi for advice. The oracle predicted that if she married a man, the whole world would perish under her eyes. “Marry a man and chaos will strike”, said the oracle of Delphi.   Everybody would use mortal combat to kill each other because of her marrying a man other than themselves. Spectra had to withstand the seas of staring eyes every time she went somewhere. That is why she always disguises herself as a different shape or color. This is why the sky doesn’t stay the same color. Sometimes the sky would be red, orange, blue, purple, pink, and more. Poor Spectra wished she weren’t this pretty until one day she was busy twiddling her thumbs when she saw this mortal man on Earth. This man, named Naturethius was watering flowers on a hillside near his small cabin. He was a strong and muscular man. The eyes of Naturethius were so calm and happy that anybody who stared deeply into them would easily fall in love with him. Spectra could not bear any other woman to marry such a handsome man. The instant she saw him, she went to her father Zeus and asked if she could marry. Zeus agreed because the pleading eyes of his daughter were overpowering. Spectra had not yet told Zeus what the oracle of Delphi said her destiny was. Maybe she could secretly marry, without letting any other mortal men find out. Spectra was absolutely delighted that Zeus let her marry. She journeyed down to Earth, looking for Naturethius. He was where she first saw him, watering flowers and humming a sweet tune. “Spectra! What are you doing on Earth?” asked Naturethius, pausing to look at the goddess. “I’m here looking for a husband and I wanted to ask you if you wanted to marry me,” asked Spectra with a shy smile. She was trying to avoid his charming eyes because if she looked into them, she would most likely grab him and fly away with him off to some distant land. Spectra was so nervous that she tripped over her own feet while waiting for his response. “Sure, I’m so lonely here in the mountains all by myself, watering flowers every morning,” Naturethius chuckled, amused by what Spectra did. Spectra wasn’t the “perfect” girl. She’s so clumsy and weird that sometimes her hands are tangled and she wouldn’t be able to untangle them. Other times, she tries to walk on two hands instead of two feet. She thought that hands were as good as feet. When Spectra’s hands hurt because of writing, she would try to write with her toes. Spectra went back to the thrones and asked Zeus a favor. Zeus said that he would do almost anything for his most favorite child. Spectra then asked him if he could make Naturethius immortal. She was careful to ask for eternal life and eternal youth after listening to a story Raina had told her. Zeus never said that he would do “anything”, so Naturethius remained a mortal. There was a grand wedding, and a few people attended. Spectra was very frightened at the thought of the world falling apart because of her, so she only allowed some gods to attend. Everybody was happy and adored the two of them together. It was when Spectra and Naturethius went to water Naturethius’s flowers did they find themselves in huge trouble. There was a whole hillside of people yelling and fighting. All brought some sort of weapon or torch. The mortals had found out that Spectra had married! Now all of them were throwing javelins at Naturethius or each other. Naturethius was really strong and killed half of the mob of people within ten minutes. He was breathless and bloody when he came back to Spectra, who was doing her best in calming the people. Whatever was left of the mob of people kept on charging at each other. Before long, only one man was face to face with the mighty Naturethius. Naturethius was greatly overwhelmed by fighting millions of people. He was so tired and wounded that with one blow of the ragged man’s sword, Naturethius died. Even the most powerful mortal couldn’t take in all the fighting. After Naturethius died, seven colored pebbles were left at the spot he died. The colors of the pebbles are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Spectra cried noisily and never stopped until one day she had an idea. She wanted the whole world to know about Naturethius. Spectra wanted to put him up as a constellation, but the skies were full. All the gods wanted to put someone special up in the skies. This is why on a clear night; you would be able to see many stars and constellations Spectra had a better idea. She wanted to make him appear only in daylight. After all, she is Goddess of the Sky. She also wanted everyone to remember her parents (Raina and Zeus) forever. So, every time there is a rainbow, it rains first, and then the sun comes and shines over everything. Soon, a long stretch of rainbow arch begins to form. The spirit of Naturethius would be at one end of the polychromatic rainbow arch; Spectra would be at the other, mourning at her great loss. Spectra would never be able to cross the arch and see her love ever again. Terrible things would happen if she did attempt to cross it. This is why there are rainbows around today. If Naturethius never existed, you would never have seen such great beauty and joy to our eyes. |
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回复人:falcon
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回复时间:2006-08-01 13:52
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好文章!
原来英语里的“光谱”——spectrum是从古希腊神话里的天空女神的名字里演化来的啊。都说英文里有大量希腊,拉丁文起源的单词,这里又是一例了。
我就是想不知道Naturethius和自然(Nature)这个词是不是也有这样的关系。
有意思。
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回复人:流云
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回复时间:2006-08-01 14:23
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Wow, Cathy, good job! I am very touched by the story about the rainbow formation, but it is really sad and unfair to Naturethius and Spectra . In China, a festival of The Seventh Night of the Seventh Moon is a day that 牛郎and 织女 meets via the milky way an
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回复人:易北河
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回复时间:2006-08-01 22:14
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作者和评论者都让我羡慕,唉,我这半辈子,斗大的字母不识半箩筐.
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回复人:快乐使者
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回复时间:2006-08-02 18:22
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i can't believe it written by a little girl named Cathy
but it's true
i can say nothing more just encourage little Cathy to write more!
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回复人:float
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回复时间:2006-08-04 04:32
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估计我是认得,不过因为某些原因,不喜欢看见英文。。。。。。。还是很佩服小姑娘,小小年纪就能写出如此哲理的东西(根据falcon报告推测)。
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回复人:扬帆
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回复时间:2006-08-04 12:58
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Cathy才这么点大,神话故事就写得这么动人,长大了一定更厉害了。好好加油!
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回复人:城市骆驼
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回复时间:2006-08-04 13:39
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回复人:falcon
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回复时间:2006-08-04 17:37
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其实公平的讲,英语是一个很有用也很有美感的语言,大概是因为它的兼容并包的特点吧,在历史上接受(今天也在继续)了很多其他语言的成份。比如说虽然英语本身源于日尔曼语的一支,但它大量的吸收了拉丁文的因素,以至于今天说英语是拉丁化的语言也不算太离谱了。此外英语里还有大量的法语词汇。可以说现代英语是在古德语,法语,拉丁语这几个语言融合的基础上再不断吸纳其他语言的词汇而形成的,这样的大融合使英语的词汇极大的丰富,在表达精确微妙的意思的时候就有很多的专门用语可选。这个对于非母语的初学者来说是很困难,可是顶过去之后就会发
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