What I'm suggesting to you is that this was the best information gathering and storing device that existed in the Mediterranean world.

我所想要告诉你们的是,特尔斐是地中海世界,收集和储存信息的最佳地点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For example, as in the rest of the ancient world, slavery existed in Israel. It did. Even so, and this is not to apologize for it, there is a tendency toward humanitarianism in the laws concerning slavery.

例如，就像远古世界的其它地方一样，奴隶制也存在于,以色列，即使这样，也不必为此感到抱歉，在有关,奴隶制的法律里都有一种人道主义倾向。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It is very unlike anything we associate with the Greeks, or anything that ever again existed in the Greek world, and that's really the point I want to make.

它不同于我们所谈及的希腊人,或者希腊世界里存在的任何东西,而这才是我真正想说明的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There is no way to talk about what he's talking about in the kinds of settlements that existed before the invention of the polis, and that I think is worth mentioning.

因为他是无法,在城邦出现前谈论,这种存在形式的居住地的,我认为这一点很值得注意

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.

农业村庄在石器时代后期,以及新石器时代随处可见,但二者是有区别的,最重要的区别在于,城市能容纳,相当数量,无需自给自足的人口

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选