can we go to the battlefield and look at it,

想去战场看一看
and there they saw all these dead Persians

然后他们在那里看到波斯人的尸体
and no one had ever seen anything like that.

那种景象从没有人看到过
No Greeks had ever beat Persians before,

这是历史上希腊人第一次击败波斯人
and great was the glory of the Athenians.

而荣耀是属于参战的雅典人的
So I've described very inadequately and too swiftly the battle.

我刚刚只是简略的讲述了一下战斗的经过
So what?

这又是什么意思呢
What is the significance

它的重要性是什么
of this silly little battle 10,000 Greeks

这场年代久远的不起眼的战斗
against 15,000 Persians back a billion years ago,

一万名希腊人对战一万五千名波斯人
what does it matter?

这到底有什么意义呢
Lots of folks will tell you that,especially these days.

很多人会这么说特别是现在