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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  I say this now with great confidence but ten years ago this story,
  我现在敢在这里夸夸其谈 但是十年前
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  which all the Greeks agreed too,
  当时的希腊人
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  agreed upon in every respect,
  对这个传说都是深信不移的
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  that the temple of Apollo was built right on top of this,
  阿波罗神庙正好建在它上面
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  and underneath the floor of the temple was this little room where the gases came up,
  神庙地板底下正是气体出现的小屋
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  where the priestess sat, where all of this came up.
  女祭司也坐在这里 一切都发生于此
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  Well, archaeologists investigated this carefully,
  十九世纪末期 法国建筑学院的
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  and the French School of Archaeology late in the nineteenth century
  考古学家仔细调查了这个神庙
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  dug everything up
  他们研究出了很多东西
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  and concluded this was baloney; it was a myth.
  包括以上说的故事 他们认为完全是个神话
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  There were no gases coming up from any of this stuff,
  这个地方没有任何气体冒出来
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  and so everybody believed for the next century,
  接下来一个世纪 人们都相信这个说法