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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  the implication I think is that the memory of chariot warfare
  我认为对迈锡尼文明时期战车战争的记忆
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  back in the Mycenaean days lingered; it was captured in the poetry
  依然留存世间 它保存在史诗中
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  that goes back--the bits of the poetry that goes back
  保存在那一段段回顾着
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  to the Mycenaean period.
  迈锡尼文明时期的诗歌中
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  But how they were used was forgotten,
  但如何使用战车却被遗忘了
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  and so the poets in the subsequent years then thought,
  因此之后的诗人们就思考着
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  "How would I use a chariot?"--
  "我会怎么用战车呢"
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  never having seen a chariot fight in a battle,
  他们从没见过在战场中驰骋的战车
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  so that's the outcome. Finley, particularly,
  这就是结局 特别是芬利
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  makes a lot of this as being rather indicative
  他根据诗的内容来想象
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  of how he pictures the poems to work. There are sort of
  并陈述了如何将诗中内容付诸实践
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  legitimate memories, some of them going way back to the Mycenaean period,
  其中有些是合乎迈锡尼文明的事实描述