how hungry do you have to be to want to eat a ferret?

你要饿到什么样的程度才会要吃雪貂
But however you see the story;

不过不论你怎么看待这个故事
you see what the message is.

你也该知道这个故事所传达的信息
It might be exaggerated and all that,

也许有些夸张
but that's the picture that comes out of Sparta.

但这也是一幅斯巴达式的图景
Now, they are also in addition given physical training.

而且他们还要进行额外的体能训练
They're already beginning to get physical training,

他们已经开始接受体能训练
the use of weapons, formations and so on,

操作武器的训练队列训练等等
but at the same time they are taught what the Greeks called,

而与此同时他们也会学习希腊人所谓的
I think I mentioned in an earlier talk, musikae, music.

我想之前的课上提到过musikae 音乐
What we call--the translation is music, but it means poetry.

我们称为...翻译是音乐其实就是诗歌
It means poems that are

意思就和合着音乐配器