Now you also may remember that we have already run into Spenser「s Mammon before this point, before Paradise Lost.
现在你们可能也记得我们已经,在遇到《失乐园》之前就与斯潘塞的贪欲之神相遇了。
The fury at 「business as usual」 in the Temples of Mammon is understandable, but it is a rotten basis for trying to regulate finance.
人们对某些「财神庙」银行仍能照常营业感到愤怒是可以理解的,但如果是为平息人们的不满整顿金融市场显然不是一个靠得住的理由。
Q4: Which date is celebrated for Mammon (Chinese god of prosperity)?
问题四:大年初几是庆祝财神爷的日子?
Mammon in English holds a meaning of 「wealth」 or 「possessions」 but with a negative undertone.
Mammon在英语里有着「财富」或者「财产」的意思,不过却带有贬义。
The shambolic Anglican response to weeks of anti-banker protest on its doorstep suggests that the strain of coping with the conflicting demands of God and Mammon has become almost unbearable.
方寸大乱的圣公会在对几周以来发生在他们门前的反银行业抗议的反应表明:应付信仰和贪欲这两个相互矛盾的要求,这一压力已经变得几乎不能承受了。
Because this is one of the most famous passages in the treatise, and it」s not one that we actually looked at for Mammon himself, I「m going to ask you to turn to Areopagitica.
因为这是在那篇论文中最有名的篇章之一,而且这不是我们之前看到贪欲之神唯一的篇章,我想让你们翻开《论出版自由》。
Those who set out to serve God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
同时侍奉上帝和财神的,很快就会发现上帝没了。
But even in the financial markets, where participants worship Mammon rather than God, faith plays a larger role than its hard-headed participants would like to admit.
即使在经济领域,人们也广泛的认为,商人们崇拜财神而不是上帝,而且这种信仰在精明的商人的心里也占有重要的地位。
The cave of Mammon is the home of Mammon, the money god, who stores in his cave all of the wealth and all of the honor that human beings spend so much energy striving for.
贪欲之神的洞穴是他的住所,这位掌管钱财的神在他的洞里藏着,人类耗费大量精力想要求得的,所有财富和荣誉。
It also provides Milton with the figure of Mammon who will, as you will see over the course of this semester become - well, here in Paradise Lost he」s one of the key fallen angels in Milton's hell.
它也为弥尔顿提供了贪欲之神这一形象,正如在本学期这一门课中你们将始终看到的,贪欲之神,在《失乐园》中会变成,弥尔顿地狱中主要的堕落天使之一。
I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.
我知道诗歌并没有死亡,天才并未销声匿迹,财神爷也没有把两者征服,把他们捆绑起来或者杀掉,总有一天两者都会表明自己的存在、风采、自由和力量。