来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第21集 第21集》

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  a smallish number of people were going to control the city.
  城邦的统治权仅会掌握在小部分人的手上
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  In fact--well,let me back up;
  事实上 我再倒回去说说
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  I'll come back to what I was about to say.
  等下再说回来
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  Now, however,
  然而
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  when they set up the Thirty to rule Athens in 404,
  当公元前404年他们建立三十寡头统治时
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  it was apparent to people who could judge matters pretty sensibly
  考虑到雅典的民主政治已形成有100多年
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  that given that Athens had been a democracy for over 100 years
  对于那些处事相当明智的人而言
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  that it would not be easy to impose such a regime,
  强制实行这样一种政体绝非易事
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  and that if you made the regime too narrow and too oligarchical,
  而如果掌权的人太少且太过寡头垄断
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  you might find yourself having trouble
  你会发现
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  in keeping your new regime in power.
  很难让该新政体掌权
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  So,
  因此