Once we sort of settle into this vocabulary, and once we get used to this clearly unquestioningly scientific perspective, why on earth do we need pseudo-statement or fiction at all?

一旦我们习惯了这种用语，一旦我们习惯了,这种科学视角，我们为什么还需要伪陈述和虚构呢？

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For others, it was necessary to go further and to settle the west coast of Asia Minor, which, indeed, this is a great period of Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor.

对于另外一些人,则必须走得更远,在小亚细亚西海岸定居,而这事实上,确实是希腊人向小亚细亚西海岸,拓殖的黄金时期

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The question would have been what will happen if I go and try to settle a colony at the place which I will call Syracuse that's what I've been describing on the southeastern coast of Sicily.

人们提得问题可能会是,如果我去,锡拉库萨建立殖民地,会发生什么事情,这就是我刚才描述过的,发生在西西里东南岸的事

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