他们认为乡下人爱讨好外地人。我没有纠正他们的这种想法。

Their view of country people was that they like to please strangers. I did not disabuse them of this notion.

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但是希腊教会反对这种做法；他们认为，人们自焚的唯一地方是地狱，所以焚烧尸体是违背希腊人死后重生的观念的。

But the Greek Church resists this practice; they believe the only place where people burn is a hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death.

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矛盾的是，正是这些孩子的父母促成了这种苛求的行为，他们错误地认为，只要给了孩子他们所能给予的一切，孩子就会快乐。

Paradoxically, the parents of such children encourage this demanding behavior in the mistaken belief that by giving their children everything they can their children will be happy.

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They always assume that if something like that happened, it was some god or gods who was angry with them.

他们一直认为这种悲剧,是因为触怒了某个神灵

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.. So that death-- they're optimists in this strange sense, if they think life would've been good, which means of course that that we die is bad for us.

所以死亡-,在这种奇怪意义上他们是乐观主义者，如果他们认为活着本来会很美好，那意味着死亡是件坏事。

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So, what we're dealing here with is a situation where the ancient Greeks were very much into mathematics as a way of explaining the world and explaining music in particular And they thought these ratios were primary.

那么,我们现在要潜心琢磨,古希腊人热衷于,用数学来解释世界,尤其是音乐的这种情形,他们认为这些比例才是基础

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