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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  They didn't really care about turning those people into
  他们从没想过把被占领国的人民变成
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  Egyptians or into Assyrians.
  埃及人或者亚叙人
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  And Alexander didn't really care that much about
  而亚历山大虽不在乎底层群众的归属
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  the lower classes doing that, but he still wanted the elites.
  确仍想要收拢和改造精英分子
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  And so he would plant Greek cities and settle his veterans
  因此他在帝国的各个地方
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  in different parts of his empire in Egypt, in Syria,
  埃及 叙利亚甚至印度西部地区
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  all the way over, and sometimes in the western part of India,
  建设希腊式城邦并让老兵在那里定居
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  and he would take his veterans of his army,
  他从军队中挑选一些老兵
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  and he would drum them out of the army, when they retired,
  等他们退役后令他们脱离军队
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  and he would give them land and they'd build a city there,
  赐予他们土地 让他们在那里建造城市
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  and that city would be just like a Greek city back home.
  建造像故土的希腊城邦一样的城市
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  And they all would speak what developed to be a common form of Greek,
  他们使用一种通用型希腊语