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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  We are talking, first of all,
  首先要记住
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  remember, about a multi-deity society.
  我们讨论的是一个多神崇拜的社会
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  Polytheism is what we're talking about.
  多神论是我们探讨的对象
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  That is true of all of human societies
  确实 在所有我们了解到的
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  that we know anything about
  人类社会中
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  down to the earliest possible exception, I suppose;
  我想"最早的"可能除外
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  well, it depends what you think is earliest.
  当然 这取决于你是怎么理解"最早的"
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  You could say the Hebrews are the earliest,
  你完全可以说《希伯来书》是最早提及的
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  pure and simple, but depending on how you date biblical things,
  但根据圣经的记载来推算
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  there's an outside chance that
  公元前十六世纪的一位埃及法老
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  an Egyptian pharaoh in the sixteenth century B.C.,
  可能宣扬过一神论
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  I think, might have claim to have some such state.
  但我认为可能性不大