The land surface pokes just a couple of meters on average above sea level, making it the lowest-lying nation in the world.

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And you just think that's just gone, if that sea decide to take that house, it's gone, you cannot do it.

这时你会想说，这房子肯定会被毁掉的，如果大海要毁掉它，它就会毁掉，做什么都没有用的。

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Well, let's get back out into the Aegean Sea and we just crossed Asia Minor.

让我们回到爱琴海地区,我们刚刚已经穿过了整个小亚细亚地区

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The Norwegian Government has pension fund assets in the amount of, as of 2006, just under two trillion Norwegian Kroner; but they also own North Sea Oil.

挪威政府拥有大量的养老基金,在2006年，其数额，是两万亿挪威克朗差一点;,不过他们还拥有北海油田。

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Satan's described initially here as the wind god Orion, a classical figure who vexed or tossed the waves of the Red Sea, ; just as Satan is rousing and inspiring his fallen host of angels; but Milton continues to complicate the simile.

撒旦在这里最初被比作风神猎户，这是一个在红海上呼风唤浪的古典形象，就像撒旦在他的天使随从面前充满了威严;,但是弥尔顿接下来又使这个比喻复杂化了。

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Just almost all the islands in that sea are inhabited by Greeks, mostly by the Greeks that came in that first wave of immigrants earlier on, not colonized during the eighth century and afterwards.

那片海域的诸岛上居住的几乎都是希腊人,他们大多都是早期的,第一批移民,而非八世纪以后的殖民者

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I'm going to contrast that with the situation in Greece after the fall of the Mycenaean world, and I was going to say not just in the Mycenaean towns themselves, but over the entire Aegean Sea and indeed across the Mediterranean.

我将会把它与,迈锡尼文明陨落之后的希腊来做对比,我说的不仅是迈锡尼城镇本身,而是整个爱琴海,乃至整个地中海地区

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