来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第1集 第1集》

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  This, too, is unique to the West,
  这对于西方世界来说是独一无二的
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  just like the Greek experience is unique.
  就像希腊所经历的历史也是独一无二的
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  This kind of religious organization
  这种宗教组织
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  is to be found nowhere else in human society.
  在世界其他地方是见不到的
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  So the union of a universalist religion,
  所以说 若是由信普救说者教会
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  with a monarch such as the Roman Empire, who ruled a vast empire,
  与罗马帝国为代表的君主政体结盟
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  could nonetheless have put an end
  便会断送
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  to any prospect of freedom as in other civilizations.
  其他文明中存在的自由前景
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  But Christianity's inheritance of
  但是理性而好争辩的希腊哲学
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  the rational disputatious greek philosophy
  继承了基督教的遗产
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  led to powerfully divisive quarrels
  从而导致了关于上帝本性
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  about the nature of God and other theological questions,
  和其他宗教问题的严重分歧