No, I think somebody had to make up a story, but the memory of kings was not of a Tarquinius.

我想总有人得编故事,而这传说中的国王并非一个,"塔克文"式的

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So this is Virgil: "When I was fain to sing of kings and battles, the Cynthian god" -that's Phoebus Apollo -- "plucked my ear and warned me."

这就是维吉尔所写的：“我欣然乐意着笔于国王与战争“,“而辛西亚那之神“,即为阿波罗-“在我耳边低声警告我“

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He was captivated by it, he--at one point I think he convinced himself that he was a descendant of the kings of that civilization.

他对其如痴如醉,他...我相信有一段时间他甚至将自己,视为那个文明的王室后裔

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You know it. I've never walked with kings though so I don't have to worry about losing the common touch because I'm not walking with kings.

哎，可是我从来都没有和王侯一起散过步，所以我,也没有必要担心露出谄媚之言,因为我没有和王侯一起散步。

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But in any event, Deuteronomy is not simply the concluding book of the Pentateuch, ; or the story that began in Genesis; it's also the first part of a much larger, longer literary work, as I mentioned last time, a work that runs from Deuteronomy through to the end of 2 Kings.

但无论如何，《申命记》不是摩西五经的终结篇，或者说是自《创世纪》开始的故事;,它也是一部更宏观长远的作品的开篇，我上节课提到过，这部作品从《申命记》一直到《列王记》结束。

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We don't know how the change came about or if--some people question if they ever really did have kings, but the picture I want you to have is that's not the tradition.

我们不知道这个变化是怎么发生的,如果...有人质疑如果他们真的有过国王,不过这里我想告诉你们的是,他们没有这样的传统

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It's also interesting that Athens has a very clear tradition of thinking they had kings, and what I think is very telling is the story they give us about how kingship came to an end in Athens.

这很有趣,雅典人有个非常鲜明的传统,认为他们有过国王,他们有个我觉得很生动的故事,描述雅典的王权是如何终结的

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Again, not themselves out there with the goats and the sheep, but they are referred to as having these herds and having to cope with them. Another very popular, I would say the most popular activity among the kings, was piracy. That's what they brag about.

并不是他们自己牧羊,他们监督放牧,管理它们,还有个非常时髦的运动,我可以说是在国王们中最流行的,那就是抢劫,他们却引以为傲

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