来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第18集第18集》

from the treasury for his building program required peace.

修建计划需要和平
If the Athenians were going to be at war,

如果雅典决意开战
that money would not be available.

资金将无法供应
So for all of these reasons he did what he did.

所以出于这些原因他做出了以上举动
My guess is he anticipated the likely outcome,

我猜测他预料到了可能的后果
but it doesn't mean that he was unprepared

但并不意味着他对其他情况
to deal with the situation if it had been otherwise.

毫无准备
There I think we see the first bit of evidence

这里可以看到支持我的想法的初步论据
that leads to my opinion that Pericles was very sincere

在维持三十年和平的问题上
about preserving the thirty-years peace,

伯里克利的态度是十分真诚的
that he saw that and hoped it would be the instrument

他深知和平的重要并且希望协议
by which there would be--

能够成为维护和平的手段--