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Fear of 666 takes hold as midnight nears
在世界末日生下撒旦
As the clock ticks closer to midnight when the calendar clicks over to the sixth day of the sixth month, 2006, hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - the fear of the number 666 - is taking hold.
Will the world end? Will someone give birth to the antichrist? Will Satan reclaim control?
Thirteen may be an unlucky number, but the Book of Revelation claims 666 is the number of the beast.
And not since the Y2K computer scare of December 31, 1999 has a date received so much attention.
Jesuit priest Richard Leonard from the Australian Catholics Bishops Conference said the furore was so great, there were reports some Australian women did not want to deliver their babies on this date.
"Parents can take heart from the fact that June 6 is not 06/06/06 at all," Father Leonard said in a bid to hose down the superstition.
"We know from other historical sources and from the New Testament ... that Dionysius' (who complied a list of dates of Jesus' birth, death and resurrection) dating was out.
"We assume that Satan knows that the sixth day of the sixth month in '06 was in fact the sixth of June 2002."
In any case, no heed should be paid to the so-called devil's number, which was part of a coded language and referred not to the devil incarnate but to the Roman Empire, considered to be the malevolent force in the world at the time.
Nevertheless the internet rumour mill is rife with speculation and warnings of bad things expected to happen, from meteors smashing into earth to babies being born with the mark of the devil.
Whatever happens, Tuesday's date may already prove ominous for some with the remake of the horror movie The Omen - a cult story of Damien the devil's spawn, is scheduled to open following scathing reviews in the weekend newspapers.
当时钟嘀嘀嗒嗒接近午夜，当日历翻到2006年第6个月的第6天，hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia—666数字恐惧症笼罩了大地。
世界会毁灭吗？会有人生出魔鬼吗？撒旦会重新夺回世界吗？
十三可能不是个吉祥数字，但是《启示录》说666才是万恶的数字。
自从1999年12月31日千年虫病毒恐慌之后，还没有哪个数字得到过如此多的关注。
澳大利亚天主教主教团成员理查德·伦纳德说，这件事炒得太过了，报道说一些澳大利亚妇女不想在这一天生孩子。
伦纳德神父澄清这一迷信说法，说：“666并非指6月6日，父母们根本不必要在意。”
“我们从历史资料和《新约》中了解到，戴奥尼夏（他编写了耶稣出生、死亡和复活的日期）所说的日期已经过去了。”
“我们认为撒旦应该知道2006年的6月6日实际上应该是2002年的6月6日。”
无论如何，人们都不必在意这个所谓的魔鬼数字。它只是密码语言的一个部分，并非意味着魔鬼的降生，而是指当时被认为会成为邪恶力量的罗马帝国。
然而，网络上纷飞的传言却充满各种猜测并警告不好的事情会发生，从流星撞击地球到带有魔鬼标志的孩子会诞生。
无论会发生什么，对于即将上映的恐怖电影《凶兆》II来说，周二肯定不会是个好日子，因为周末报纸上已经出现很多关于它的尖刻指责了。《凶兆》讲述魔鬼转世戴米安的故事。
1. tick：嘀嗒作响
2. hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia：666恐惧症
3. take hold：扎根、抓住
4. antichrist：基督的敌人
5. reclaim：要求归还，收回
6. Book of Revelation：《启示录》，是《圣经》的最后一卷，运用象征、表象以及其它文学手法，来表达对将来的种种预见。
7. beast：野兽
8. Y2K：Year 2000的缩写，一种电脑病毒，被称为千年虫
9. jesuit：耶稣会士
10. bishop：主教
11. furore：狂怒
12. deliver：接生
13. take heart from：不用在意…
14. hose down：用水管浇
15. superstition：迷信
16. New Testament：新约，《圣经》分为新约和旧约两个部分，新约是圣经的后部分，与前约（旧约）的主题遥遥相应，彼此一贯，同是彰显神的儿子耶酥基督。旧约之中心是以色列，新约是教会。但在基督里的信徒，很自然会较常翻阅特别论到我们的主和他教会，并他期望信徒怎样生活的新约部分。
17. resurrection：复苏
18. heed：留意，注意
19. coded：编码的
20. incarnate：使成化身，肉化的
21. malevolent：有恶意的
22. rife with：充满
23. meteor：流星
24. ominous：恶兆的，不吉利的
25. cult：宗教
26. spawn：卵，产物
27. scathing：严苛的
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