Elliott Gorn, a wonderful historian up at Brown, wrote a brilliant, fascinating, half-crazy essay once about eye-gouging and Southern fighting.
艾略特·龚是布朗时期一个伟大的历史家,他写了一本很有趣,很引人入胜,口味很重的一本小说,是关于南方式打架和挖眼珠的
They start fighting about something that really doesn't deserve fighting.
他们开始为了不值一提的事情争吵起来。
There were, and there's a lot of debate about what I'm going to say next, there were protocols of fighting that were followed.
我接下来要说的还有些争议,战争也是有需要遵从的惯例的
There's just one more thing you need to know about this phalanx mode of fighting.
关于这种方阵模式的战斗,还有一点需要你们知道
A normal reason for fighting is a dispute about a piece of land that is more or less on the boundary between them, and so that's one aspect of their world.
战争的常见原因就是领土争端,争夺一片或多或少在他们边界之间的领土,这是他们生活的一个部分
Although I don't quite understand--I should say, there's many things about how the fighting went on which we can only attempt to imagine because we just don't have films of ancient hoplite battles, I'm sorry to say.
虽然我有时也很困惑,比如说,战场上瞬息万变,情况非常复杂,由于没有古代重步兵白刃战的影像资料,我们只能猜想战场上发生了什么,真的是很遗憾
One was Calkis and the other one was Eretria and we hear about them relatively early in the eighth century, already being very important, very strong and fighting each other in a famous war that they fought.
卡尔基斯和埃雷特里亚,人们早在八世纪就对它们有所耳闻,那时,它们很重要,很强大,在一场著名的战争中相互敌对
One of the big arguments that is part of this story is when did this development of new way of fighting come about; rather quickly, over a matter of a few years, or did it stretch out over quite a long time.
人们对此最大的争议就在于,这种新型战斗方式是何时为军队所用的,是在短短几年内迅速发展起来的呢,还是在很长的一段时间逐步形成的呢
Well, he would love to be fighting at the edge of the Grand Canyon, so that he doesn't have to worry about his right flank, but he's out there in the middle of a field.
如此一来他肯定会喜欢在大峡谷边上战斗,因为那样就不必担心右侧受到攻击,但当他在战场的中央
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