He named it after the legendary King of Crete who appears in Greek mythology by the name of Minos.

他以传说中克里特之王的名字为之命名,在希腊神话里,他的名字叫米诺斯

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Well, that's what we see for the first time in the Aegean area on the island of Crete.

在爱琴海地区的,克里特岛上

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The same thing is true of Knossos in Crete, and perhaps a few other sites in Crete.

同样的事情也发生在克里特的克诺索斯,或者克里特岛其他地区

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When we use the word Minoan we mean the civilization whose home is Crete.

当我们用"米诺斯"这个词语时,就是指出自于克里特的文明

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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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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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Well, the way we can reason things out from the evidence we have suggests that Greek-speaking peoples came down into the area around the Aegean Sea, perhaps around 2000 B.C., about a thousand years later than the emergence of the Minoan civilization at Crete.

根据现在我们掌握的资料推断,讲希腊语的人群主要集中在爱琴海附近,大概在公元前两千年左右,在米诺斯文明出现在克里特岛大概一千年后

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