A long process of transmission, interweaving, literary embellishment has gone into the creation of this account in Exodus 14 and 15.

经过长期的流传，混杂以及润色,就有了《出埃及记》14和15中的故事。

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The classical hoplite formation then was not the long lived military institution of scholarly tradition, but merely one phase in a history of almost four centuries of slow change towards ever denser and more cohesive heavy infantry formations."

这种方阵的形成,并不是经过长期传承的传统军事制度,只是步兵阵型演变的一个阶段,战阵逐渐向更加紧密坚固的步兵阵型转化,而这个变化持续了约有四个世纪"

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