and the General Antigonus Gonatas was the one who took that.

被安提戈诺斯·戈纳忒斯将军获得
That would be its own sort of area

这像是他的自有土地
until the Romans defeated the different Greek rulers there

直到罗马人在那里打败了这个希腊统治者
and took over Macedonia and Greece.

接管了马其顿和希腊
What's important for us though is really the Seleucids and the Ptolemies

对我们来说重要的是塞琉古斯和托勒密
because if you draw a line separating Syria from Egypt,

如果你画一条线从埃及分隔出叙利亚
the line goes right through Palestine.

这条线穿过巴勒斯坦
The Jews were kind of caught, therefore,

犹太人就是在那里被捕的
on the border, so Judea at this time

在边境上犹太那时
was on the border between these two empires and

正处于这两个帝国的交界处
they were constantly fighting trying to aggrandize their own kingdoms.

为了扩大各自的王国战争连绵不断地进行
The Jews were often, therefore, caught right in the middle.

因此犹太人经常在这里被捕