来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第2集第2集》

people didn't even know where they were,

人们甚至不知道那些城邦在哪里
that's extraordinary.

这非常令人惊奇
That only happens when something very,

通常只有在某种特别特别
very large drives people away from an inhabited site.

强大的力量将人们赶出居住地时才会发生
So, here is where Jerry Pollitt's

对此杰瑞·波利特对于罗马城陷落
analogy to the fall of Rome seems so very appealing.

的类比似乎也十分引人注目
That is, more or less,

那就是或多或少的
what did happen in the Roman world

我看不到任何事物可以表明
and I don't see anything that's suggested it couldn't

在罗马社会发生的事情不会
happen in the Greek world at the time we're talking about.

在我们所讨论的这个时期的希腊发生
I'm trying to figure out;

我想问一下
we quit when, ten until 1:00, right?

我们是在一点过十分下课对吧