In the early years of the English Revolution, one of the hottest flash points of political contention was the degree of appropriate state involvement in the church.

在英国革命的早年，政治诉求中非常迫切的一点就是,政府在宗教管理中适当参与的程度。

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But now, imagine that we are living in the early years of a polis sometime in the eighth century B.C.

但是,现在想象一下,假如我们生活在公元前八世纪

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Now, the books of Joshua and Judges that open the Deuteronomistic history, these books recount or relate the story of the conquest of the land of Canaan by the Israelite tribes, and the early years of the settlement: that's in Judges.

那么，《约书亚书》和《士师记》,开始了申命记中历史故事，这些经书记叙了,以色列部落征服迦南之地，早期的定居，这些出现在《士师记》中。

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In that year, we were early on in terms of diversifying the portfolio -we'd only been working on that program for two years -and even so,the negative return was less than 1%, so it was a modest negative return.

在那一年,我们还处于投资组合多元化的初期,刚刚开始2年,即便如此,股灾时我们的亏损小于1%,这只是一个轻微的亏损

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These are linguistic terms. But of course, the people who spoke them, especially in the early years, tended to be part of a relatively narrow collection of people, who intermarried with each other chiefly, and therefore developed common cultural characteristics.

这时的希腊语主要是一些语意项,不过当然,那些讲希腊语的人,特别是在早期,是一个相对小范围的人群,他们主要在族群内部通婚,由此,发展出相近的文化特征

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选