来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第9集第9集》

and they live in a military school,

在军事学校生活
which is the only school there is for boys in Sparta.

这也是男孩在斯巴达唯一的学校
The school is governed by a magistrate

学校由地方长官直接管辖
and it is run by the older boys. In many respects,

由年长一些的孩子打理从很多方面看
when I think about it,

我每每想到这个
it strikes me as being like an upper class British--

都惊讶于它和英国上流学校的相似之处
what they call public school,

在英国被称为公学的学校
which means of course private school.

当然肯定都是些私立学校
The descriptions of Eton and Harrow,

像伊顿公学哈罗公学
and even more harrowing places than that;

或者其他更悲惨的地方
surely, you must have read novels by Englishmen

当然你肯定读过英国人写的
talking about their school days

关于他们学校生活的小说