来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第6集 第6集》

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  Why didn't the guys in the middle get crushed?
  为什么中间的几排人没给压扁呢
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  I don't have any very good answers for that
  我并没有令人满意的答案
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  and yet it is one part of the traditional explanation is this,
  目前还有一种传统解释
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  and it's a very important one and much debated,
  很重要 同时也饱受争议
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  that at a critical time in the battle one technique
  那就是在战局千钧一发的时刻
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  would be one side would give one great big shove.
  有一项技术就是一方给对方致命一推
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  The word in Greek is othismos,
  用希腊语来讲就是"othismos"
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  and if that was successful as it might be,
  如果这样的推搡战术成功
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  it could knock down the lines of the front guys
  就能击溃方阵的前排
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  and get the other side running.
  使敌方溃不成军
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  There's ancient evidence,
  这里有古老的证据
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  there's an ancient source for that,
  有一份古代的资料表明