来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景 第5集 第5集》

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  geographically, according to his letter, is Damascus.
  是哪里 根据他信中所说是大马士革
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  then he says, "I went to Arabia."
  然后他说 "我去了阿拉伯"
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  Arabia at this time refers to the part of the other side of
  当时的阿拉伯是指
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  the Jordan River from Judea, so it's what we would call
  约旦河另一边 从犹太开始的地区
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  modern Jordan mainly, maybe eastern Syria,
  可以说是现在的约旦 或者东叙利亚
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  western Jordan but that's what was Arabian desert that's
  或西约旦 不过那里以前是阿拉伯沙漠
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  so he's talking about he went away to that area that we would
  所以他说的是他去了我们现在称为
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  now call eastern Syria or Jordan.
  东叙利亚或约旦的地区
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  Remember Damascus is one of the large cities in Syria,
  大马士革是叙利亚的大城市之一
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  so that's where he goes.
  就是他去的地方
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  "Afterwards I returned to Damascus.
  "后又回到大马士革"
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  After three years," we get a nice little chronological note
  3年后 这里有个很关键的时间节点