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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  they would try to steal whatever they could.
  就是让他们去偷任何他们偷得到的东西
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  It's hard for me to know where they would find things to steal
  我很难想象他们怎么找到能偷的东西
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  and how to steal it,
  又是怎么偷到东西的
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  but kids are very ingenious.
  不过孩子们总是很机灵的
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  So, anyway they would be encouraged to do that
  无论如何 这种行为是受到鼓励的
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  but they would be punished severely if they were caught.
  但如果被抓 惩罚也是很严厉的
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  So the trick was to steal but not to get caught;
  所以诀窍就是偷东西而不被抓
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  that was also part of the training.
  这也是训练的一部分
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  But I always thought that some wonderful focus of
  我总认为要做一个斯巴达学校的孩子
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  what it was like to be a kid in one of those Spartan schools
  所要忍受的痛苦和磨难
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  is revealed by the story that Plutarch tells
  在普卢塔克写的一个故事中展露无疑
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  and it doesn't really matter if the story is true or not,
  这个故事的真假并不那么重要