In the story you will now read, Hawthorne tells how Zeus and Quicksilver came down to earth, and taught some people a very valuable lesson.

在你将要读的故事里，霍桑讲述宙斯和水银如何来到人间，并教给一些人非常宝贵的经验教训。

But our very Life came down to earth and bore our death, and slew it with the very abundance of his own life.

但我们的生命来到了地球上， 承受了我们的死亡，并用他自己丰富的生命杀死了它。