a general alliance, meant against Sparta,

一个广泛的联盟旨在与斯巴达对抗
which they were able to do in considerable part,

他们能这么做在很大程度上是因为
because of all of the irritation that had been felt

整个希腊社会已经对
all around Greece by these terrible actions of the Spartans,

斯巴达的恶劣行径所激怒
and as I think I'll tell you next time,

我想我下节课会告诉各位
they put together what we call the Second Athenian Confederation,

他们结成同盟即所谓的第二次雅典同盟
and they made an alliance with the newly liberated Thebes.

他们和刚刚自由的底比斯结成同盟
Thebes, which is going to get stronger and stronger, and stronger

底比斯之后会变得越发强大
and so we have now a threat once again to the Spartan hegemony

现在威胁斯巴达霸权的同盟又再次出现
which will be very serious,

斯巴达会遇到严重挑战
but of a different kind from the one we had before.

但是它会与以往有着很大不同
I'll tell you about it next time.

我将在下次课告诉各位