来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第5集 第5集》

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  You fought for your polis
  你为你的城邦而战
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  and when you died fighting nobly for your polis,
  直到为你的城邦光荣牺牲
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  you will be - and were then -
  那时你就会
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  honored extraordinarily by that polis and
  你就会被那座城邦赋予卓越的荣誉
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  what everybody knew was that your memory would
  而且每个人都知道你的记忆将会
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  last thereafter so long as your polis lasted,
  与城邦的记忆共存
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  and the proof of it is that Herodotus knows that story
  证据即希罗多德知道这个故事
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  and is telling it, as will other story tellers,
  并且像其他讲故事的人一样讲述着
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  and in fact, it worked.
  实际上 它真的奏效
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  Here we are talking about Tellus
  在这儿 我们在那么多年之后
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  all these many years later thanks to Herodotus.
  仍然能谈论特勒斯 这多亏了希罗多德
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  But the point is that
  但是关键是