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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  When you were a young boy, you would've studied just
  当男孩子年纪还小的时候
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  reading and writing Homer.
  就开始阅读抄写荷马史诗
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  When you got to be about the age of what you guys are here,
  当长到跟你们差不多年纪的时候
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  you might enter the ephebate;
  就进入ephebate[青年时期]
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  you'd become an ephebe, and that just meant that
  成为一名ephebe[男青年] 这意味着
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  you were past your sort of early secondary training
  第二阶段早期的训练已经结束
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  and now you were being really in training to be a warrior and a citizen.
  要接受成为真正的勇士和帝国公民的训练
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  So the ephebes were those boys who were between
  Ephebe是指年纪在16或17岁
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  the age of maybe 16 or 17 and 20 or 22.
  到20或22岁之间的男子
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  You would march together in a parade in town.
  他们一起在城里的游行中行军
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  You would go on military training perhaps together.
  也可能一起接受军事训练
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  You would also engage in sports together,
  他们将一起参与体育竞技