来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第24集 第24集》

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  it had this great income from the empire,
  因为它能从帝国获得不菲的收入
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  say roughly 1,000 talents a year coming in.
  差不多一年能收入一千塔兰特
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  That was not true.
  这并不准确
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  So, that if Athens wanted to
  因此 如果雅典想要向什么地方
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  send an expedition anywhere,
  派遣一支远征军的话
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  they had to levy a direct war tax;
  他们就要征收一笔专门的战争税
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  it was called the eisphora.
  叫做非常财产税 Eisphora
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  They had done so two or three times during the Peloponnesian War.
  在伯罗奔尼撒战争期间他们收过两三次
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  As far as we know they had never done it before that time.
  据我们所知 在此之前他们从没这么做过
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  We have stressed how unnatural direct taxation
  我们强调了专项税收在希腊
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  was in the Greek world,
  是多么的不寻常
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  but here that's what they really had.
  但这就是他们那时做的