Well, guess what, it turns out fish don't live everywhere in the water and they don't live very much around Greece as it turns out.
不过出乎意料,鱼在这儿也很少有,它们似乎不太喜欢生活在希腊附近
This political life came to be shared by a relatively large portion of the people and participation of political life was highly valued by the Greeks.
政治生活自诞生起,就被绝大多数的民众所分享,希腊人高度重视,政治生活的参与度
The reason for that was that in the east and in south, the Greeks lived among people who were more civilized than they, who were more advanced.
究其原因,在东方和南方,希腊人生活在比他们更文明,更先进的民族中间
The Greek view,moreover, presupposes that man lives in society.
进一步说,希腊的观点的前提条件,就是人是生活在社会中的
The Greeks are doing a lot of learning, borrowing,and adopting.
希腊人学到了很多,借鉴了很多并将这些应用到生活
No, they weren't like that, the Greeks were ahead of them and it's evident that they borrowed stuff from the Greeks in every element of life, although it didn't shape their lives in a potent, fundamental way.
不,他们不是文明的,希腊人比他们先进,也有证据表明,他们从希腊人那里学习了生活中的各种东西,虽然这些并未从根本上,有力地改变他们的生活
I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.
我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了
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