a general and that foremost responsibility of athenian generals

作为一名雅典将军履行其最重要的职责
was to lead armies and navies into battle.

带领军队和船队作战
From his own time until modern times,

从他的时代到现代
Pericles' talents as a general have been criticized and defended.

伯里克利的军事才能一直颇具争议
In the first year of the peloponnesian war,

在伯罗奔尼撒战争的第一年
when his strategy called for the Athenians to huddle

他的战略是让雅典人
behind the walls of their city while

躲在城墙后面
the invading peloponnesian army ravaged their lands in Attica,

对伯罗奔尼撒军队在阿提卡的掠夺视而不见
Thucydides says the city was angry with Pericles.

修昔底德说城内对伯里克利怨声载道
They abused him,

他们辱骂他
because as their general he did not lead them out into battle

作为一名将领而不带领他们冲锋陷阵
and they held him responsible for all they were suffering.

并将他们所遭受的不幸怪罪于他