来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第2集 第2集》

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  He found it and it was the excavation
  他找到了迈锡尼城 并且这次的挖掘之后
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  of the site of Mycenae which was soon followed by
  又引发了一轮对于
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  the excavation of other sites from the same period
  同时期其他遗迹的挖掘活动
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  that made it possible for people to talk about this culture,
  而这也让人们在破解他们的文字之前
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  even before they could read the script.
  有了探索此文明的可能性
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  The culture is marked by some of the following features.
  此文明有以下几个特征
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  Let's take Mycenae,
  我们以迈锡尼城为例
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  which is maybe the best example of the whole culture.
  这也许是此文明最好的例子
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  Certainly, it's a perfect model for what we're talking about.
  当然 它也是我们谈论最好的模本
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  What you have to begin with is a town or a city,
  它应该是从一个建立在山顶的村庄
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  or a settlement of some kind built on top of a hill,
  或城市 或聚居点 开始发展
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  and it's usually intended to be a formidable hill,
  一般来说这类城市都会选址在险峻的山峦