nor could he have been re-elected general year after year,

更勿说连任将军了
if that was the picture of him.

这不正应了他的人生写照
Nor did he fail to demonstrate boldness and enterprise.

再说他也并没有隐匿起大胆与冒险精神
In 446, the very survival of Athens

公元前446年雅典帝国
and her empire were threatened.

遭遇到生死威胁
The most menacing rebellions broke out close to home,

在埃维厄岛麦加拉和皮奥夏
in Euboea, Megara, and Boeotia.

来势汹涌的叛乱逼到了家门口
Pericles swiftly took an army to put down the Euboean rebellion,

伯里克利迅速派兵平定了埃维厄岛叛乱
and just as swiftly withdrew on news of the second,

并在接到二次叛乱的消息时迅速撤兵
which opened the door to a Peloponnesian invasion of Attica.

这一事件为伯罗奔尼撒进攻阿提卡敞开了大门
He arrived, you remember,

大家还记得
just in time to persuade the Spartans to withdraw and

他曾及适时地劝说斯巴达退军