来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第19集 第19集》

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  So, now to turn to the war itself.
  现在谈谈战争本身
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  I have long ago concluded that
  我早已说明
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  running through the war at the pace that's available to me in time
  跟着我的节奏快速浏览战争
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  will be too superficial to be anything but silly,
  是非常浅陋而愚蠢的
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  so I won't try to tell you what happened in the war
  我不会告诉你们战争中发生了什么
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  but you have a pretty good informant there,
  但你们有一个相当不错的告密者
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  his name is Thucydides
  他的名字是修昔底德
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  and your textbook can fill the rest of it in.
  其他的内容教科书会补充说明
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  What I'd like to do in the time available to me to talk about
  在剩下的时间我想
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  the war is to pursue a couple of topics in some depth
  深入地探讨一下战争的几个主题
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  to help you understand some aspects of the war,
  以帮助你们了解战争的某些方面
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  rather than the hopeless effort to
  而不是花费精力