So the Romans didn't try to make the East Roman, in that sense, culturally, nor did they try to change the language.

所以罗马人没有强迫东方罗马化，文化上没有，语言上也没有。

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You can't wander around any Greek city, or Roman city of the Ancient World, without seeing the latrine.

古代希腊城市，及罗马城市，都有公共厕所。

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We have a huge number of people who don't want to be Roman generals here.

我发现有很多同学,不想成为罗马将军啊

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That is, more or less, what did happen in the Roman world and I don't see anything that's suggested it couldn't happen in the Greek world at the time we're talking about.

那就是,或多或少的,我看不到任何事物可以表明,在罗马社会发生的事情不会,在我们所讨论的这个时期的希腊发生

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Actually the City of Corinth wouldn't have been taxed because it was a Roman colony, and one of the benefits of being a Roman colony is that you didn't have to pay taxes, or at least the citizens didn't have to pay taxes.

事实上科林斯城以前从不收税,因为它是罗马的殖民地，成为罗马殖民地的一个好处是,不必交税，或者至少公民不用付。

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Another characteristic of these years, which scholars refer to as the Dark Ages, just as they do the years after the fall of the Roman Empire-- dark for two reasons. Dark, in the most obvious way, because we don't have any writing, no record of them.

这也是这段时期的另一个特征,学者们称之为,黑暗时代,他们也是这么称呼,罗马帝国陷落后的那段时期的,称黑暗主要有两个原因,黑暗,最明显的理由,是因为我们没有任何关于他们的史料和记录

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