carry details of thousands of transactions in hundreds of places.

记录了几百个地方数千宗交易的细节
These files, as we might call them,

这些相当于我们今天的档案卷宗
are both sweepingly inclusive and penetratingly minute.

内容不仅包罗万象而且细致入微
For instance, bronze is allocated to

举个例子青铜分配到
different places for the manufacture of arrowheads

不同地方用于制造箭头
or swords, with a note telling how many

或者刀剑然而每个地方能劳动
smiths in each place are active and how many are not.

和不能劳动的铁匠数目都有记录
Cretan sheep

克里特的羊
are enumerated to the amount of 20,000.

多达两万头
I'm sorry, that's not right. I don't want to get this wrong,

对不起不对我不是有意犯错
25,051,

两万五千零五十一头
and we learn that in a Cretan village,

我们了解到在一个克里特的村子