来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第9集 第9集》

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  our guess is a whole quarter of a century of fighting;
  我们猜测整整四分之一个世纪都在打仗
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  that's very important to realize.
  认识到这点非常重要
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  These were not your typical Greek war of later years.
  这并非你们所知的晚期的典型希腊式战争
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  This was not one day we'd have a battle and we'd go home.
  这并非打几天仗就回家
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  This was a campaign that lasted a generation,
  这是持续了足有一代人的战争
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  that's how hard it was to conquer Mycenae,
  攻克迈锡尼是如此艰难
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  and then in the second Mycenaean War,
  在第二次迈锡尼战争中
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  how hard it was to put down the tremendous rebellion
  镇压反抗如潮
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  that brought about the second Mycenaean War.
  使得第二次迈锡尼战争举步维艰
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  It was a helot rebellion.
  这是农奴的反抗
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  The helots could not have
  农奴不可能
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  succeeded in making this such a hard fight
  在没有斯巴达邻邦的帮助下