来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第7集 第7集》

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  That would be hard to believe, impossible to believe, I guess,
  我想 这很难甚至无法让我们相信
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  if it weren't that these dates tend to be confirmed in a general way,
  除非它不是通过人云亦云地阐释
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  not in a specific way,
  而是通过一种特殊的方式
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  by the archaeological discoveries that we find at the sites,
  比如对这些殖民地源头
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  the earliest places where these colonies came into being.
  现场的考古发现
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  So it's that combination, archaeology plus Greek tradition
  这是个综合了考古学和不同城邦时期下
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  that lies behind the date of any city.
  古希腊人的传统记载得出的
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  But you shouldn't take the date that I give you,
  但是我所提供给你的日期历史久远
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  the traditional date, as being firm.
  并不能当做确切的时间加以使用
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  It's a general thing; it's around that time is the best we can really say.
  这只是大概的时间 是我们根据证据的推测
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  The date that's sort of typical for the general phenomenon of colonization
  殖民 成为这一典型时期的普遍现象
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  coming out of the mother cities of Greece
  古希腊人离开故土 开始了对外扩张