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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  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
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  and you would develop a camaraderie because you were expected then
  建立同袍之谊 因为他们
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  to be the fighting force for your city, your city-state.
  将一起为他们的城邦而战斗
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  So the ephebate, or the ephebeia,
  所以 ephebate或者说ephebeia
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  was this institution that every boy had to go through
  是每个男孩成为一个合格的公民