来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第3集 第3集》

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  unless I can't. Now, things that prevent me
  除非我看不懂 现在的问题在于
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  from believing what I read are that they are internally contradictory,
  有些历史文献本身就是矛盾的
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  or what they say is impossible,
  有些则是无稽之谈 还有一些内容
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  or different ones contradict each other and they can't both be right.
  观点是互相冲突的 两者不能同时成立
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  So, in those cases I abandon the ancient evidence.
  因此 我放弃了古代文献
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  Otherwise, you've got to convince me that they're not true.
  除非你们能给我指出哪些矛盾是错误的
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  Now, you might think of this as, indeed, gullible.
  现在 你们或许也在纠结于这段历史
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  A former colleague of mine put the thing very, very well.
  我以前的一位同事总结的非常好
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  He spoke about, and I like to claim this approach,
  他是这么说的 我觉得这种方式很好
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  the position of scholarship to which we call the Higher Naivete.
  这是一种叫做"高级天真"的研究方法
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  The way this works is, you start out,
  方法是这样的 开始的时候
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  you don't know anything, and you're naive.
  你一无所知 这样你就是天真的