And when someone tells you that the cards are stacked against you, he is saying you do not have a chance to succeed.

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He tells you about his adventure in the mountains.

他跟你说着他在山中的冒险经历。

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He invaded and he was clobbered, and then you read the splendid story Herodotus tells of how he was captured.

他大举入侵波斯,但惨遭重创,接着,你就读到希罗多德,讲述他如何被俘的故事了

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And Achilles then speaks up and really lets him have it, chews him out, tells him what a bozo he is, and, you know, the very important thing is this.

阿喀琉斯说了出来,让他把姑娘还回去,唾弃他,骂他是个十足的白痴,有一点非常重要

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Socrates introduces the problem of thumos by a story, a particularly vivid story that I hope you all remember, where in Book IV he tells the story about Leontius at the walls.

苏格拉底透过一个故事来导入，Thumos，的问题,一个特别生动的故事,我希望你们能都记下，在第，IV，册时,他告诉我们关于，Leontius，从墙外走来的故事。

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And if you look at the whole story that he tells, that really means quite soon after the fall of the Mycenaean world, probably maybe a century earlier than what Finley suggests.

如果你关注一下他所描述的内容,就会发现那是在迈锡尼世界瓦解之后,可能要比芬利的观点还要早一个世纪

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If he is beneath the polis it means he's beneath what it is to a human being, and that tells you just how potent is this concept of a community for the Greeks and it emerges in its own way from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

反过来,如果一个卑微到无法进入城邦的人,那也就意味着他作为人的意义同样卑微,由此可见,集体的概念,是多么的深入希腊人的心中,在《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中,便揭示了这一点

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