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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what it was like to be a kid in one of those Spartan schools所要忍受的痛苦和磨难 -
is revealed by the story that Plutarch tells在普卢塔克写的一个故事中展露无疑 -
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 -
because it tells something real in the telling.因为它确实能告诉我们一些实情 -
The story is that one故事是一个斯巴达男孩 -
Spartan boy had succeeded in hunting an animal成功地抓到了一只能用以果腹的动物 -
that he could eat and the animal he caught was a ferret,那是一只雪貂 -
and he would have killed it and eaten it,他正准备杀了吃 -
except that at just at that point就在这个节骨眼上 -
the call was for them to get into formation响起了集结的号角 -
and so he had to immediately get into formation,所以他马上归队了 -
it would have been deadly not to do that,要知道如果不归队的话后果是很严重的