来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第17集 第17集》

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  and writes about it with a sophistication
  并以极其老辣的文笔描述了当时的情况
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  that in my opinion, has not been superseded
  在我看来 他的描写无可取代
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  and rarely matched in the years since that point.
  并且鲜少有人能与之匹敌
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  Thucydides' whole first book really is about that subject,
  修昔底德在全书首卷即写了战争起源
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  how and why did that war come about?
  为何以及如何爆发了战争
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  That's a subject I just think is immensely interesting and important,
  我认为这很有意思也很重要
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  because we should face the fact
  因为我们必须面对这样一个事实
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  that the history of civilized mankind
  人类的历史
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  is almost the history of warfare.
  几乎就是一部战争史
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  There's nothing more typical of human societies than
  最典型的人类社会
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  that they are organized to fight wars and do so.
  就是为了战争而组织在一起
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  And I think by the twentieth-, twenty-first century we ought to
  我相信在二十 二十一世纪