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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  and they were tremendous.
  它们是十分了不起的
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  You have the destruction completely of the Mycenaean Bronze Age culture.
  青铜时期的迈锡尼文化被完全摧毁
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  Greece never sees anything like it again.
  希腊地区再也没有出现过这样的文化
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  This is not the way it was in the ancient Near East.
  这并不像古代近东
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  This is not the way it was in Egypt.
  或者埃及
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  There you see continuity for a very, very long time.
  在那里你可以发现时间跨度有很长的连续性
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  The Greek world has this tremendous discontinuity.
  而希腊的文明则是不连续的
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  It's like the door slams and you got to go into a new room.
  这就像是砰的关上门然后走进另一间房间
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  Among the things that are lost for a long time, there is writing.
  在长期遗失的事物中 包括文字材料
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  There is no writing in Greece from
  没有文字记载的时期是从
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  let us say 1100 or so on
  公元前一千一百年左右到
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  until the middle of the eighth century B.C.,
  公元前八世纪中叶