which is that the Higher Naivete must reign

"高级天真"
--and if the Greeks said it happened,

如果古希腊人说确有其事
you got to believe it happened,

你要相信它确实发生
until you have to believe that it didn't happen.

除非你不得不相信它其实并未发生过
And so he decided to investigate this

赫尔决定调查这个传说
and he took with him a fine geologist

而跟他一起去德尔菲的
from Wesleyan just to go to the place there at Delphi

是一个来自卫斯理大学的地质学家
and to see whether it could be true that such gases did come out,

去证实这些气体是否能出现
and what sort of gases they were, and what consequences they would

若出现又是何种气体会带来何种后果
and you know I wouldn't be telling you this story

我之所以告诉你们这个故事
if it hadn't turned out that they discovered evidence that, in my

是因为他们有了确凿的证据
but I don't think really anybody doubts it anymore,

但我觉得还是有人对这些