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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  increasingly into the eastern Mediterranean and they adopted
  他们越来越渗入到地中海东部沿岸
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  the whole Greek system, the Greek world,
  并且全盘接受古希腊的体制
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  and they didn't even try to make it non-Greek.
  并一直对此兢兢业业 毫无他念
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  So Romans didn't go around trying to get people in the East to speak Latin.
  罗马人并没有逼迫东方人说拉丁语
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  They might put up an official inscription in an Eastern city in Latin,
  他们会在东部城市张贴拉丁语的官方铭文
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  but they'd almost always, if it was an official inscription,
  但若是官方铭文
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  it would also be listed in Greek.
  铭文都附有希腊语
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  So Romans who ruled in the East were expected to speak Greek.
  因此统治东方的罗马人需要会说希腊语
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  And by this time all educated Roman men were expected
  那时所有受过教育的罗马男性
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  to be able to speak Greek, well if possible.
  要能说希腊语 说得流利更好
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  So the Romans didn't try to make the East Roman,
  古罗马人没有试图让东部罗马化
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  in that sense, culturally, nor did they try to change the language.
  因此在文化上他们也没有想要改变语言