来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景 第3集 第3集》

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  and spoke Macedonian and not themselves Greek,
  说着马其顿语而不是希腊语
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  but they had, just like Alexander,
  但他们与亚历山大一样
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  they had adopted Greek language, Greek culture.
  已经接受了希腊人的语言和文化
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  They educated their children in Greek ways.
  他们用希腊式的方法教育子女
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  Alexander, of course, had been educated by Aristotle,
  亚历山大自己就从小师从亚里士多德
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  when he was young, and so he had adopted
  所以从小就熟谙
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  Greek language and Greek literature
  希腊语和希腊文学
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  and a lot of other Greek ways.
  以及接受了许多希腊式的生活方式
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  What Alexander had wanted to do was to take all these different peoples,
  亚历山大本想使所有这些不同民族
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  who spoke different languages and had different customs,
  使这些有着不同文化与语言的民族
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  and use a Greek layer to sort of unite his empire overall.
  在一种希腊式的统治下在帝国内全面融合
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  Now he didn't really care about the lower class people so much.
  但他不太为下层民众着想