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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  in fact I want to use the word stitched together,
  事实上 我想使用"串联"这个词
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  because in the Ancient Greek world the people who sang, recited,
  因为在古希腊 那些歌唱 朗诵
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  created the poems of the Homeric epics
  和创作《荷马史诗》的人
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  were called rhapsodes,
  被称为吟诵者
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  and that means stitchers of songs.
  就是说把诗歌串联在一起传唱
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  So, what you have to imagine is sometime back,
  所以 你们想象一下在过去的某时
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  I would argue, in the Mycenaean Period,
  我当然是说在迈锡尼文明时期
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  somebody began making up one of these songs,
  有人开始创作这些诗歌中的某一首
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  telling the story of Greeks going to attack the city of Troy.
  它描述了希腊人攻打特洛伊的故事
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  And that for centuries thereafter,
  在这之后的几个世纪里
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  different rhapsodes repeated it but elucidated it,
  不同的史诗吟诵者重复着 讲解着
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  illuminated it, extended it,
  阐释着 拓展着