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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  Now, the first question I suppose,
  好了 在我向你们描述殖民地之前
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  before I get to describing what a colony was and how it worked,
  我有一个问题 那就是
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  we want to ask the question what was it that led Greeks to sail or walk,
  古希腊人为什么要不畏艰难
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  mostly to sail very great distances from their mother cities.
  航行或跋涉到离母邦那么远的地方
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  To leave home and to establish a new city for themselves
  我们不能理所当然地认为
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  someplace else is not to be taken for granted.
  这是为了建立一个新的城市
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  In the first place, by and until the twentieth century, I guess,
  首先 我觉得 20世纪以前
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  human beings tended to stay put.
  人们都喜欢定居
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  They didn't move, unless they were driven to move.
  除非万不得已 他们不喜欢迁徙
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  That was the natural thing to do given the character of life,
  生活的意义就是定居一处 种田养家
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  which was based upon farming, if you leave you lose your farm,
  离开了这片土地 就失去了食物的来源
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  and based upon the difficulty of transportation.
  另外 古时的交通非常落后