几个世纪以来一直质疑正义究竟为何物的希腊人是无法理解我们的正义观的。
The Greeks, who for centuries questioned themselves as to what is just, could understand nothing of our idea of justice.
在关于古代特洛伊城的传说里，希腊人是靠躲在一匹木马中进城的。
In the legend of ancient Troy, the Greeks got into the city by hiding in a wooden horse.
有关法规引起的反映不一，一些希腊人是乎接受有必要管制吸烟，但其他的人觉得新法规是不可实施的。
But the announcement was met with mixed reaction; some Greeks appear to accept the need to regulate smoking, but others thought the new rules would not be enforceable.
如果你观测那些真正有能力控制银行和媒体的人，你会看到美国的犹太人和那些美国的意大利人、希腊人是一样的。
If you look at the people who are really in the position to control the Banks and media, you see Jews represented like you would see Italian Americans, Greek Americans.
在希腊人看来，他们是史前的怪物。
They are sort of prehistoric monsters as far as the Greeks are concerned.
是希腊人的荣誉感和道德使他们不会采取偷袭的方式吗？
Was it just the Greek sense of honor and propriety that kept them from doing a sneak attack?
古希腊人提出的古代哲学的好处是，他们倾向于以清晰而完整的方式看待生活，而今天的我们却不愿这样看待生活。
The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.
这种态度会让古希腊人感到惊讶，他们认为幽默本质上是具有攻击性的。
This attitude would have surprised the ancient Greeks, who believed humor to be essentially aggressive.
我得说一下有关死亡的事，为了理解希腊人的思维。你们知道，不同人对于死亡的观念是不同的。
I ought to say a word about death, in order to comprehend what the Greeks thought. You know, different peoples have had different ideas about them.
但是希腊教会反对这种做法；他们认为，人们自焚的唯一地方是地狱，所以焚烧尸体是违背希腊人死后重生的观念的。
But the Greek Church resists this practice; they believe the only place where people burn is a hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death.
与以往一样，有些权力崇拜者，尤其是历史学家，他们倾向于赞美任何强大的东西，他们对罗马权力的的欣赏远胜于对希腊人敏锐的欣赏。
As always, there are the power worshippers, especially among historians, who are predisposed to admire whatever is strong, who feel more attracted to the might of Rome than to the subtlety of Greece.
占卜的结果是，阿波罗对希腊人发怒了。因为阿伽门农抢了自己父亲的女仆，而他父亲是阿波罗的大祭司。
As a result of divination, Apollo was angry with the Greeks. Because Agamemnon robbed his father's maiden, and his father was the high priest of Apollo.
希腊人发现，人类的记忆在很大程度上是一种联想过程，通过把事物联系在一起来运作。
The Greeks discovered that human memory is largely an associative process that it works by linking things together.
他实际上认为自己的发现是反常的，因为托勒密王朝是希腊人，而不是埃及人。
He actually dismissed his own findings as an anomaly because the Ptolemaic dynasty was Greek, not Egyptian.
每一次的挫折都被归结为临时的因素——是希腊人！
Every setback was attributed to temporary factors - It's the Greeks!
给财产纳税是无可厚非的，因为希腊人普遍倾向于低估收入。
Taxing property makes sense because of the widespread Greek tendency to understate income.
我们接触到的希腊神话是这些希腊人认识的世界，它被潺潺流动的江河完全包围。
The Greek myth that comes down to us is that this world that the Greeks knew was entirely surrounded by a circular flowing river.
超过2/3的希腊人同意强力的措施是必要的。
More than two-thirds of Greeks accept that tough measures are necessary, say the polls.
一个希腊人说：“我认为，这些政策是朝与欧盟找到共同点的方向迈出的良好一步，我认为，这样的共同点就是所有希腊人应当渴望实现的前景。”
"I think the policies are a good step towards finding common ground with the European Union, which is I think a vision that all Greeks should aspire to," a bystander told reporters.
希腊每日新闻报记者帕帕迪·米特·里欧说，一些希腊人的看法是，如果希腊拖欠借款并退出欧元区，处境会好一些。
Babis Papadimitriou, a journalist with the daily paper Kathimerini, says some Greeks conclude that the country would be better to default on its debt and leave the eurozone.
但是这也是一场扑克较量，这是尝试着让希腊人明白，牌全都掌握在欧盟手里，希腊人手里的不过是一对小王而已。
But it's also a game of poker; an attempt to convince the Greeks that the eu has all the CARDS, while the Greeks have just a pair of deuces.
但是如果他们继承所有希腊风俗，会被认为是希腊人。
But if they had fully adopted Greek customs, they were considered Greeks.
莎士比亚、哈姆雷特、以及古代的希腊人罗马人，是想象不出蒸汽机、铁路和18、19世纪的工业的。
Shakespeare, Hamlet, the ancient Greeks and Romans could not imagine steam engines, railways, and the industry of the 18th and 19th centuries.
在小亚细亚，马车的车轮是沉重的，而希腊人的车轮是轻型的，因为他们要在陡峭的路面上运行。
Chariot wheels in Asia Minor were heavy, whereas those of the Greeks were light since they had to operate on rocky ground.
在德国人看来，这似乎是对希腊人篡改账目、肆意挥霍的严厉惩处，不禁心觉宽慰。
To German ears that sounds like reassuringly harsh punishment for Greece's fiddled accounts and profligacy.
他是要去希腊人那儿，给希腊人讲道吗？
Is he going to go out to the Greeks and preach to the Greeks?
先是希腊人，然后是罗马人，将牙膏的配方加以改进。他们添加了一些磨料如碎骨和牡蛎壳，用来清除牙齿上的污垢。
The Greeks, and then the Romans, improved the recipes for toothpaste by adding abrasives such as crushed bones and oyster shells, which were used to clean debris from teeth.
但有一件事自古至今仍未改变,那就是希腊人的好客.古希腊人相信,陌生人可能是神的化身,所以他们总会善待陌生人。
One thing that hasn't changed since ancient times, though, is Greek hospitality. Ancient Greeks believed that a stranger might be a god in disguise.
但有一件事自古至今仍未改变,那就是希腊人的好客.古希腊人相信,陌生人可能是神的化身,所以他们总会善待陌生人。
One thing that hasn't changed since ancient times, though, is Greek hospitality. Ancient Greeks believed that a stranger might be a god in disguise.
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