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Identified with
Tellus by Romans, Gaea was the earth goddess. She was the offspring
of Chaos. She of herself begot Uranus (heaven) and
[解说] 1. “Identified with Tellus by Romans, Gaea was the earth goddess”：被罗马人认同为 Tellus，Gaea 就是大地的女神。 “Identified with ...”：被认同为 …、被视为就是 …。
2. “She was the offspring of Chaos”：她是混沌的后代。 “offspring”：后代 (= descendant, issue)。 “Chaos”：混沌 (在神话中为宇宙之始，万物中的第一物)。
3. “She of herself begot Uranus (heaven) and Pontus (ocean)”：她自动生了 Uranus (天) 和 Pontus (海洋)。 “of oneself”：自动的 (= automatically)。
4. “By Uranus she then begot the one-eyed Cyclops, the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires, and the Titans”：她然后跟 Uranus生了那独眼的 Cyclops，百手的 Hecatoncheires，以及那些 Titans。 “by A beget B”：跟 A 生了 B。
据说：独眼巨人 Cyclops 有三位，后者帮忙新的 gods 打败 Titans。于是 Zeus 与众神统治天下。 Titans 为 old gods。
5. “And by Pontus she produced various sea creatures”：而跟 Pontus 她生了各种海洋生物。
6. “Her name came to be the first syllable of geography, geometry, geology, etc.”：她的名字变成为 geography, geometry, geology 等的第一个音节。 “come to be”：结果是、变成为。 “geography”：地理。 “geometry”：几何学 (原为测量土地的学问)。 “geology”：地质学。
[复习填充] Identified Tellus
by Romans, Gaea was the goddess.
She was the o of Chaos. She herself
begot Uranus (heaven) and . |
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