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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  seeing each other's goods; they're not trading them.
  看到过彼此的商品 他们之间没有贸易往来
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  They're simply working within their own very narrow ambit.
  他们只是简单地在有限范围的内部工作
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  That's the kind of a world that is being created.
  这就是当时的世界
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  Something less easy to say confidently,
  有些事想确切地说出来不容易
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  but probably clear,
  但可能已经比较明白了
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  I think, is the whole legacy of Mycenaean culture
  我想 就是整个迈锡尼文明留下的遗产
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  is really lost, not fully though.
  确实遗失了 虽然并不是一点都没留下
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  There is always something that we call folk memory
  但总有一些我们称之为民间传说的东西
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  that has a recollection of the distant past
  可以引起我们对遥远过去的回忆
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  which may have truth to it,
  这也许与真实的历史有些联系
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  but may not,
  但也可能没有
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  or it may have only an element of truth to it,
  或者只与真实历史有一点点联系