来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第5集第5集》

in the society, mainly these farmers I'm talking about,

主要是我之前讲到的农民
will get together and perhaps

他们会团结起来
fix on some discontented aristocratic individuals,

一同对抗那些贪婪的贵族
and most particularly pick some aristocrat

他们主要针对那些
who has distinguished himself typically as a soldier,

作为部队的领袖
as a leader of troops, and engage really in

有显赫战功的贵族们
what amounts to a kind of a revolution or at least

然后开始某种意义上真正的变革
a coup, and bring about a different kind of

推翻现有的专制
a monarchy which the Greeks called a tyranny.

建立新的君主制即希腊人所说的僭主统治
When these tyrannies take place,

当僭主统治步入历史舞台
they last for different periods of time,

它走过了很多历史时期
but when the tyrant is removed,

但当它寿终正寝之后