来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第15集 第15集》

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  until the twentieth century,
  这种情况一直到二十世纪
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  and that we continued to limit political participation
  政治参与权
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  to those of a specified age.
  仍然限定到某个具体年龄阶段
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  To deny the title of democracy to Pericles in Athens,
  我们若因为雅典伯里克利时代的民主
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  because of those excluded would be to employ
  排除了某些人参政 而否定这种民主
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  a parochial and an anachronistic set of criteria
  认为这是一种狭隘且不合时宜的标准
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  that produced paradoxical results.
  就会得出似是而非的结论
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  Certainly no contemporary Greek doubted
  当然 古时候的希腊人
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  that Athens was a democracy.
  不会对雅典的民主产生质疑
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  The only argument was whether a democracy was good or bad,
  当时唯一的争论是民主到底是好是坏
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  which is almost an unthinkable question to put in our time.
  而这点在我们这个年代是毫无争议的
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  To look at it from the other end,
  若反过来看