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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  Socrates says the Greeks sit
  苏格拉底说希腊地形
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  like frogs around a pond
  就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘
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  and that pond is the Aegean Sea.
  而那池塘就是爱琴海
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  It's a helpful little story to remember,
  这是个很生动的比喻
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  because we tend to think of Greece
  因为我们都认为现代希腊的
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  because of its modern geography as that peninsula
  地理环境
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  of which there is a sub
  在其底部[最南方]是
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  peninsula at the bottom, which is Peloponnesus.
  一个分离于大陆的半岛 即伯罗奔尼撒半岛
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  That was not the Greece of antiquity.
  但古希腊地形并非如此
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  If you had to pick a central focus of where the Greeks were,
  如果你要在古希腊寻找一中心位置
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  it would be in the Aegean Sea. So that's useful to remember.
  那就是爱琴海 所以这很容易理解
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  Then as you move east along that coast,
  当你沿海岸东上