来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第13集第13集》

There was no Parthenon,

就不会有帕特农神庙
none of those glorious buildings that make us think about

所有这些令我们为之折服的伟大建筑
the greatness that was Greece had been constructed.

都不会被希腊人建造
There would be no democracy,

民主也不会诞生
because this was the only place where it had any existence.

因为古希腊就是民主的发源地
The scientific revolution which was beyond its infancy

在古希腊初期的科学革命
in terms of being new would have been wiped out.

也会荡然无存
There would be no memory;

没有任何的回忆
there would be no record of any of this.

对此不会有任何的记录
Therefore,no Western civilization,

并且西方文明不会存在
no political freedom,

没有政治自由
for all these have occurred in no other culture

因为在这之前所有的这些