which will still leave that flank

这样仍会使一侧对敌人敞开
open to being flanked by the other side.

从而受到对方攻击
That's what prevents that from happening,

这就是开始时不进攻侧翼的原因
we just don't see that going on. Yeah?

只是我们没有见到罢了请讲
- Was it just the Greek sense of honor

-是否是希腊人的荣誉感和道德
and propriety that kept them from doing more creative sneak attack?

使他们不会采取偷袭的方式
- It used to be thought before people were very careful--

-人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过
we know that they do every terrible thing in the world

我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中
in the Peloponnesian War.

做尽了世上的恶事
Whatever the rules were before,

无论以前的规则是怎样的
they're off when we get into the Peloponnesian War.

在伯罗奔尼撒战争中都不再合时宜
There's just no dirty trick that anybody fails to do if it can.

各种卑鄙战术无所不用其极