来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第9集第9集》

most desirably male

最好是男孩
children who would serve as soldiers for them.

男孩可以在以后成为士兵
So, we should think of this

所以我们应该把这种关系
as being all part of a state system of training

当作国家为了培养战士
and education to produce fighting men,

而建立的训练和教育体系中的一部分
who would also be practically all a single family,

实际上他们是一个大家庭
as close and tight with one another as they could be,

并且和其他人尽量保持密切紧凑的关系
because of the quality

正因为这样的关系
it would give to the Spartan phalanx made up such men.

斯巴达方阵的战斗力才会如此之高
I was going to say the Spartan man when he reaches 20,

当一个斯巴达男人过了二十岁
the guys that were there between the ages of 20 and 30,

那些介于二十到三十岁之间的男人
are allowed to marry,

是可以结婚的