which is maybe the best example of the whole culture.

这也许是此文明最好的例子
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
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
or a settlement of some kind built on top of a hill,

或城市或聚居点开始发展
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
one not easily accessible to anybody who comes walking along,

那些人们不容易攀登的地方
a place, in other words, that would make a very nice fort, a citadel.

或者说能建立起绝佳的堡垒和据点的地方
That's, indeed, what we find at Mycenae.

的确是我们在迈锡尼旧址所找到的
On that citadel, on that strongly,

那个堡垒在那个坚固的
rocky fort or citadel, they built what we now identify

用岩石建造的城堡或据点之上他们建造了
as the royal palace, the palace of the king.

我们现在所说的皇家殿堂国王所居之处
That was, I should point out, maybe about ten miles from the sea.

我要指出的是那里距海大约有十英里远