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It was the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to the lower world. Hercules once dragged it up into the upper world and showed it to Eurystheus. It could be mollified with food. Therefore, the Greeks used to bury a cake of honey along with the corpse. Hence the phrase “a sop to Cerberus.”
[解说] 1.
“It
was the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to the lower world”：牠是守卫下界入口的那只三头狗。 “three-headed”：有三个头的。比较：three-legged：三条腿的。 2.
“Hercules
once dragged it up into the upper world and showed it to Eurystheus”：Hercules曾经把牠拉上来进入上界 (阳间) 而把牠给 Eurystheus 看。这是 Hercules 十二种劳役 (Twelve Labors)
之一。 3. “It could be mollified with food”：牠能够用食物来加以抚慰。 “mollify, mollification”：抚慰、使柔和。
4. “Therefore, the Greeks used to bury a cake of honey along with the corpse”：因此，希腊人一向会随同尸体埋葬一块蜂蜜。 “corpse”：尸体。 “a cake of”：一块 …，如 “a cake of soap” (一块肥皂)， “a cake of ice” (一块冰)。
5. “Hence the phrase 'a sop to Cerberus'”：因此有了「给舍伯的谢礼」这句话。 “Hence”：因此、因此有。“sop”：(浸于汤汁的) 食物，安慰物、贿赂。 “a sop to Cerberus”：给舍伯的谢礼，贿赂恶人的东西。
注意： "Hence the phrase" = Hence we have the phrase 或 Hence there is the phrase。
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