Then we turn to the island of Euboea, that long island that's right next to the east coast of Attica, Euboea.

让我们再看看埃维亚岛,是阿提卡正东岸的长形岛屿,埃维亚

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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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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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He went up North from Denmark to a deserted island of the coast of Norway and stayed there for about three weeks.

他从丹麦北部,来到了挪威海岸的一个荒芜的岛上,并在这里呆了三周。

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He wrote a long and detailed history of Britain, attempting to create the meaning of that little island that he always assumed was God's chosen nation.

他写了一部长而具体的英国史，试图论证这座小岛的重大意义,他一直相信英国是上帝所选的国度。

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The Carthaginians, in fact, and the Greeks will have to fight the Carthaginians over the years for control of the island of Sicily.

实际上,迦太基人,而在接下来的历史里,为了争夺西西里岛,古希腊人与他们进行了长年的战争

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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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Well, if you look at the catalog of ships in Homer's Iliad, the island of Salamis had its ships lined up next to the island of Athens. Ballgame.

如果你看荷马伊利亚特的《船舶名录》这一卷,萨拉弥斯人把自己的船排列在了,雅典人的船旁边,就那么简单

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And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

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Sparta starts at an early point, sends out a colony to southern Italy at some time, probably early, they sent out a colony to an island in the Aegean Sea, Melos, and then they stopped and never sent out another colony.

斯巴达要早一些,某一时期在意大利南部建设过殖民地,也许更早的时候,曾在爱琴海上的岛屿米洛斯殖民,然后他们的殖民活动戛然而止,并从未再开始

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Well, some examples, later on in history there's a quarrel between Athens and Megara as to who controls the island of Salamis.

好,再举几个例子,后来雅典和麦加拉间,就谁统治萨拉弥斯岛的问题起了争端

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