if you can launch your attack from Epidamnus

因为从埃比达姆诺斯发起进攻
rather than from someplace else.

和其它地方发起进攻是一样的
No, no, there's no reason to doubt Thucydides about this.

因此没有理由去怀疑修昔底德的解释
This is about honor and it's about dishonor.

这关乎名誉和屈辱
Now, does that sound very remote?

是不是听起来很遥远
Who cares about honor in the twentieth century, twenty-first century?

谁还在20世纪 21世纪关心名誉
What kind of nonsense is this?

这真是无知的想法
I will tell you that you and everybody around you,

告诉你们你们身边的每个人
and everything you see in the world today

看到的世界上的每件事
is motivated more frequently -- especially conflict,

更多的也是出于--争端尤是如此
but other things too,

但其它事情也一样
the way you lead your life is influenced

比如你生活的方式等