It spread out beyond Crete because the Minoans established what we might want to call an empire in various parts of the Mediterranean, and it starts with Crete.

其所覆盖的区域比克里特岛更广阔,因为米诺斯文明建立了,现在我们所称的"帝国",其疆域分布于地中海的广大地区,它起源于特里克

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The Minoans are not Greeks.

米诺斯人不是希腊人

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That is not true for Crete because, although they had a script-- and we have available to us tablets with those writings on them-- to this day no one has deciphered the language written by the Minoans.

不过对于克里特来说不行,因为,虽然他们的确有一些手稿存世...,我们能够看到这些写着字的残片,不过直到今天,没有一个人能破译米诺斯文明的文字

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