what I'm trying to suggest to you.

这点我得和你们交待清楚
It was not even on the way to anything very important.

当时那儿压根不是一个重要的地方
I always am reminded of the term that Neville Chamberlain used

我总是想起内维尔?张伯伦的一句话
when suddenly war threatened about a place

当时欧洲中部的捷克斯洛伐克
in the middle of Europe called Czechoslovakia

突然受到战争威胁
and Chamberlain said about it a faraway place

当时张伯伦说那是一个遥远的地方
of which we know nothing.

对于那里我们一无所知
I would have been embarrassed to say that even in 1937,

这实在有够丢人的哪怕是在1937年
but it's really something about Epidamnus,

但此话却道出了埃比达姆诺斯的情况
I mean it's way out there in the middle of nowhere

那里确实对于一个希腊人来说
as far as the Greeks are concerned.

是一个事不关己高高挂起的地方
Nothing is important about Epidamnus itself.

埃比达姆诺斯自身毫不重要