来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第4集 第4集》

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  gives way increasingly to contact with the east and the south,
  开始逐渐增加与东方和南方的接触
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  and when I say the south I really mean Egypt
  当我的南方 实际上指的是埃及
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  and all around the eastern Aegean Sea.
  以及所有东爱琴海的周边地区
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  The rise of the polis is based upon critical,
  城邦的兴起是基于关键方面
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  economic, military,social,and political changes,
  经济 军事 社会 和政治的变革
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  all of which produce a world that's really strikingly different
  所有的一切都造就了一个
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  from the one that was just before it.
  与之前的时代截然不同的新世界
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  I suppose the first apparently historical event
  我认为第一个已知的重大历史事件
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  that we know something about is the first Olympic Games,
  就是第一次奥林匹克运动会
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  which according to Greek tradition
  根据希腊人的口头传述
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  were held in 776 B.C.
  那是发生在公元前七百七十六年
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  The precision of that,of course,
  当然 这个时间的精确度