来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第19集第19集》

made the siege of Troy so long.

而是因为希腊人贫穷
He seems to have been the first one to present the view

他似乎是第一个提出如下观点的人
that the Peloponnesian War was one single conflict

伯罗奔尼撒战争是一场始于公元前431年
that began in 431 and ended in 427,

止于公元前427年的战争
not a series of separate wars.

而不是一系列分散的战争
But my question again is what was there to revise?

但我要再次提问有什么要修正的呢
The answer, I think,

我认为答案
is the same as in the modern instances, i mentioned.

与我之前提到的现代战争的例子如出一辙
The not yet, fully formed,

在当时并没有完全成形的
or written opinions of contemporaries.

或是书写下来的主张
In modern times these are very easy to recover.

而在现代史实的复原很简单
Some of us still remember them,

仍为一些人所记得