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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  and building cities that would challenge their control of that.
  去建立一个会遇到顽强抵抗的城市
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  So there are no Greek cities
  因此一路往下穿过巴勒斯坦
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  as you keep coming down and pass Palestine.
  就再无希腊城市了
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  You reach Egypt, and of course,
  你来到了埃及的领地 当然
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  Egypt is one of the great empires of antiquity going back into,
  埃及是古代最伟大的帝国之一
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  perhaps, certainly into the fourth millennium, possibly into the fifth,
  它有近四千年 甚至五千年的历史
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  by no means as powerful as it used to be, far from it.
  毫无疑问 古埃及达到了空前绝后的强大
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  It has been conquered by now by other peoples.
  但现在 这个地区已经被外族征服了
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  If you're talking about the year 750 or something like that it's--
  如果是说大约公元前750年左右
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  I think it's in the hands, well,
  我想它先是
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  it is in the hands of the Assyrians
  落入古亚述人之手
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  and it will ultimately fall into the hands of the Persians.
  最后又被波斯所占领