来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第18集 第18集》

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  if you withdraw your people.
  我们就撤
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  Corinthians said no way.
  科林斯人拒绝了
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  I think what comes out of this back and forth is important;
  分析这种谈判回合十分重要
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  it is that the Corcyraeans are not looking to expand this fight;
  克基拉岛人并不想扩大战争
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  they want to end it.
  他们想结束战争
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  Not because they are peaceful and loveable fellows,
  不是因为他们热爱和平
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  but because they're afraid of where this thing will go.
  而是因为担心之后的事态发展
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  We are now dealing with another term
  如果用另一个
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  that came into fruition in the twentieth century;
  在20世纪开始使用的术语来描述的话
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  escalation is what these guys were afraid of.
  即他们害怕"事态升级"
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  We got this little fight going on here but next thing you know
  现在只是场小仗 但之后
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  we may find the Peloponnesian League involved.
  伯罗奔尼撒联盟恐怕也会参与进来了