来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第14集第14集》

had only one vote.

但是只有一票
so,

那么
how could the Athenians have their way, you may ask.

你会问雅典人怎么得到他们的特权的呢
But the way it really worked was,

事实上情况是这样的
because Athens had all of this prestige and all of this power,

因为雅典威名赫赫位高权重
it meant all of the very small powerless states huddled

这就意味着所有弱小的小城邦
under the wings of the Athenians,

都在雅典的羽翼庇护之下
and could be counted on to deliver the right sort of vote,

从而可以确保他们能投出足够的票数
to do what the Athenians told them,

以保证完成雅典让他们做的事情
whereas,supposing they had used

鉴于假定他们所采取的
something like proportional representation,

是类似比例代表制的方式
given the Athenians "X"Number of votes, a lot of votes,

假设雅典人有X票很多票