"We've heard the words he spoke on behalf of the world's number one democracy, he said - we've been waiting for these words for a long and he should know that the has friends and that Europe will from now on be an even stronger pillar that he can count on,".

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You can't fight as a hoplite, in other words, unless you can afford to pay for your equipment and that excludes a goodly number of citizens who are too poor to fight in the phalanx.

换句话说,你不能加入步兵方阵,除非你自己能出钱买装备,这样有相当多的公民,会因为贫穷无法在方阵中战斗

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And his answer was, "Well, when my father sent me here, he told me a number of things that I'm supposed to do, but the most important of these was the Greek words, aien aristeioi, always be the Best.

他的回答是,"当我父亲把我送到这里时,他对我说了,我该做到的几件事,而其中最重要的就是,用古希腊语说"aien aristeioi",事事为先

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