讀到了第8章，奧德西斯終于要開始講述自己海上十年歷程。他經(jīng)歷了哪些冒險呢？

What a long voyage! What kinds of hardships did he endure? Iron willed he undoubtedly is, I would say.

so I’m to weep and grieve, it seems, still more. Well then, what shall I go through first, what shall I save for last?

終于可以向別人傾述（吐苦水？）的時候，英雄仍舊悲從心來（有人說過，如果你能笑對自己之前的苦難，那么你就真的放下，忘懷了吧吧?？磥磉@一段經(jīng)歷真的如此沉重，怎能輕易放下？）先講什么，后講什么，一時也語塞。

But they never won the heart inside me, never. So nothing is as sweet as a man’s own country, his own parents, even though he’s settled down in some luxurious house, off in a foreign land and far from those who bore him.

奧德西斯一開始就先介紹了自己的出身，家鄉(xiāng)。

East or west, home is the best. Calypso and Circe famed for their matchless beauty and tried to hold him back, but as Odysseus mentioned, they would not win the heart inside him, never... Although his homeland was? rugged and his voyage was fraught with hardships Zeus inflicted on him, his mind was set ---- returning his home safe and sound.

And now, at long last, I might have reached my native land unscathed

At Cicone' stronghold, that rich hual blinded his companions' eyes so that those mutinous fools did not want to cut and sail away. As a result, Zeus presented he and his comrades with disasters as punishment, which meant that they were doomed to suffer blow on a mortal blow. This eventually gave them a pounding and sadly claimed six lives of his companions.

Moreover, they were hit by a hurricane' blast, slashing the sails into rags. 英雄面對近在咫尺的死亡也會如同凡人一樣-- cringing at death. Luckily and eventually, when they reached the shoreline, for two days and two days, they lay by, eating their heart out, bent with pains and bone-tired.

From there we sailed on, our spirits now at a low ebb, and reached the land of the high and mighty Cyclops

接著便是讓人品嘗之后便流連忘返的lotus which could dissolve eaters' desire of returning home and merely linger there with those lotus-eaters grazing on lotus.

之后，他們精神低迷地來到一個島，這里住著盛氣凌人的Cyclops, 毫無法紀的brutes。