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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  but still, if you look at the world of Odysseus,
  如果你继续阅读《奥德赛》里面的故事
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  his home, what's going on in Ithaca,
  在他的家乡伊萨卡岛发生了什么
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  there are some valuable clues.
  你会找到很多有用的线索
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  There is somebody in that world called a basileus,
  那里有一种叫做巴赛勒斯的人
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  who is a single individual who is understood
  他被认为是一个天资比
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  to be superior in some way to everybody else.
  其他人更好的人
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  However, he's not very superior to everybody else.
  然而他并不比别人优越多少
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  He has all of these noblemen around him,
  他身边总有权贵围绕
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  all of whom claim to be basileis, as you recall,
  之前我们说过 这些人都是巴赛勒斯
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  and a fairer way to put this would be that
  更准确的说法是
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  this is largely an aristocratic society,
  这是一个庞大的贵族社会
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  that was our conclusion after we looked at the poems of Homer,
  这是我们读完荷马史诗之后的结论