He had an incestuous attachment to his daughter and therefore he demanded that all suitors for her hand engage in a chariot race with him, their lives to be forfeit if they lost.  Thirteen suitors had failed and died before Pelops, the fourteenth, came.   Pelops bribed a servant to insert waxen instead of the usual wooden axle pins in Oenomaus' chariot.   The wax melted with the heat of the revolving wheels, the wheels came off, and Oenomaus was dragged to death. 

[解說]

1.      “He had an incestuous attachment to his daughter”: 他對他女兒有一種亂倫的感情。 “incestuous”: 亂倫的 (=  of incest)。 “attachment”: 附著，感情。

2.      “and therefore he demanded that all suitors for her hand engage in a chariot race with him”: 而因此他要求說：所有追求跟她結婚的人要跟他進行一個戰車賽跑。 suitor: 追求者。 “hand”: 婚約。  chariot: 戰車。

3.      “their lives to be forfeit if they lost”: 他們的性命將要喪失，如果他們輸的話。 “forfeit” 可當動詞或形容詞，指「喪失」，亦可當名詞，指「喪失物，沒收物」。

4.      “Thirteen suitors had failed and died before Pelops, the fourteenth, came”: 在第十四位 Pelops 來之前，有十三個追求者已經失敗而死了。

5.      “Pelops bribed a servant to insert waxen instead of the usual wooden axle pins in Oenomaus' chariot”: Pelops 賄賂一個僕人去插入臘的 (非一般木製的) 車軸栓在 Oenomaus 的戰車裡。  axle: 車軸。  pin: 針，栓。

6.      “The wax melted with the heat of the revolving wheels”: 隨著旋轉車輪的熱度，那個臘熔化了。  revolve: 旋轉。

7.      “the wheels came off, and Oenomaus was dragged to death”: 那些輪子脫落了，而 Oenamaus 被拖拉致死。 

[複習填充]

Oenamaus had an in______ attachment to his daughter and therefore he demanded that all suitors for her h____ engage in a chariot race with him, their lives to be f____ if they lost.  Thirteen suitors had failed and died before Pelops, the fourteenth, came.  Pelops bribed a servant to insert w____ instead of the usual wooden axle p___ in Oenomaus' chariot.  The wax melted with the heat of the re_____ wheels, the wheels came ____, and Oenomaus was dragged to death.