There's just no way to explain that except to say that catalog of ships goes back to the Mycenaean Period.

除非《船舶名录》来源于迈锡尼文明时期,否则这点就无法解释了

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Nevertheless, our knowledge of the earliest stages of human civilization was quite limited for many centuries.

然而，几个世纪以来,我们对人类最早时期文明,的认知是很有限的。

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And then, of course, there's lots of stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the Mycenaean period.

因此也有很多东西,和迈锡尼文明时期无关

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In ancient culture people worried a great deal about being properly buried, so that's an interesting concept.

在古文明时期,人们很重视死后能否安然入葬,所以那是个很有意思的想法

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As early as 1826 an important pro-slavery writer named Edward Brown argued that "Slavery," he said, quote: "Had ever been the stepping ladder by which nations have passed from barbarism to civilization."

早在1826年,一位重要的亲奴主义作家,爱德华·布朗说过,"奴隶制,曾是帮助那些国家从野蛮时期,发展到文明社会的阶梯"

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So barring that, nonetheless, what we see reminds us very much of these ancient Bronze Age early civilizations.

尽管如此,我们所看到的遗迹依旧,和古代的青铜时期的早期文明非常相似

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In the years of the Mycenaean period, roughly from 1600 to 1100 or so B.C., you are dealing with a largely unified culture.

在大约公元前一千六百年,至公元前一千一百年,迈锡尼文明时期,你将看到一个高度统一的文化

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They'll be sort of post-Mycenaean then proto-geometric.

大致顺序,先是后迈锡尼文明时期,然后是"原几何"时期

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So, what you have to imagine is sometime back, I would argue, in the Mycenaean Period, somebody began making up one of these songs, telling the story of Greeks going to attack the city of Troy.

所以,你们想象一下在过去的某时,我当然是说在迈锡尼文明时期,有人开始创作这些诗歌中的某一首,它描述了希腊人攻打特洛伊的故事

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Many a scholar are very reluctant to admit that there's any Mycenaean stuff here, although they cannot fail to concede that some of the physical implements that are found at Mycenaean sites are precisely like what Homer says.

许多学者不愿承认,存在于迈锡尼文明时期的文物,尽管他们勉强同意,在迈锡尼文明遗址中发现的文物,和荷马描述的非常接近

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Well, if you take a look at the Greek civilization let us say in the classical period, those other cultures wouldn't have had a clue what the Greeks were doing, so different was the Greek experience from theirs.

如果你看一看希腊文明,让我们以古典时期为例,其他文明,都不会理解希腊人在做什么,希腊人与他们的经历是如此不同

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Because the Mycenaean centers all reveal for that stretch of time that they're scared. The proof of it comes from strengthening their already quite strong walls in almost all the sites that we see, and also--this is a very important fact.

因为在迈锡尼文明的中心,有迹象表明在一段时期,他们受到了威胁,这样说的证据是,我们发现的几乎所有的遗迹,都在本就很坚固的城墙上继续加固,而且,这是一个很重要的史实

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