So: the great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the area we refer to as the Fertile Crescent, of which a little part here about the size of Rhode Island is Canaan.

古埃及，美索不达米亚地区,我们称之为新月沃地，这里的这一小部分,跟罗德州岛差不多大的是迦南。

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The major difference is... if you leave New York and you go to the island,

主要的不同就是……如果你离开纽约，然后去岛上，

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I would say two-thirds of the coast of the island of Sicily is filled with Greek towns.

那里,我敢说西西里岛三分之二的沿岸,都分布着希腊城镇

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There's Coney Island, there's DUMBO, there's Greenpoint, there's Williamsburg which is where I live.

那里有科尼岛，小飞象，绿点，还有我住的地方——威廉斯堡。

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One of the interesting documents we have is a fragmentary inscription from the Island of Chios.

其中我们发现了一份非常有趣的文献,是在希俄斯岛上的一处残缺碑文

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He's taken to the beautiful city on the island of Scheria, Phaiacia, and is treated with great respect as you're supposed to in the Mycenaean world.

他被带到斯刻里亚岛上的一个美丽城市,腓埃基亚,他受到众人的礼遇,就好像在迈锡尼王国一样

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Now Attica is, in fact, approximately 1,000 square miles, which I am told is about the size of Rhode Island, and that's the biggest polis of which we know.

阿提卡,事实上,大约一千平方英里,我听说大概和罗德岛差不多大,而这就是我们所知的最大的城邦

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In the Odyssey,you remember Odysseus finds himself on the island of the Cyclops, those one-eyed monsters, and what is it about them that make them so monstrous, so inhuman from the perspective of the Homeric heroes?

还记得《奥德赛》中的奥德修斯,在独眼怪居住的岛上遇到的那些怪物,为什么这些独眼怪在荷马式英雄的眼中,是那么丑陋,那么残忍

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