Both of these activities were based on seafaring, an ability the Phoenicians developed from the example of their maritime predecessors, the Minoans of Crete.
这两项活动都以航海为基础，这是腓尼基人从他们的海上前辈——克里特岛的米诺斯人那里发展出来的一种能力。
The Minoans were not Greek, and their language remains unknown.
米诺斯人不是古希腊人，其语言文字至今不明。
At the time, a highly advanced society of Minoans lived on Santorini.
当时，一个高度发达的米诺斯人社会正生活在该岛上。
The Minoans exerted great influence on the Mycenaean culture of the Greek islands and mainland.
米诺斯文化对希腊本土的迈锡尼文化产生了巨大的影响。
In about 2000 B. C., early Greeks known as Minoans developed a system of picture or hieroglyphic, writing.
大约公元前2000年，早期的希腊人即弥诺斯人，发明了图画或象形文字。
The ancient Minoans laid terra-cotta pipes to bring water from a nearby hill, creating water pressure in much the same way we use towers.
古米农人会利用赤陶管从附近山丘引水，制造水压的方法跟我们使用水塔的原理大致相同。
The Minoans portrayed them on jewellery, while the ancient Greeks had the “hippocampus” (half horse, half fish) pulling the chariots of Poseidon, the sea god.
古希腊克里特文明时期就将海马像绘在珠宝上，而古希腊传说中海神波塞冬双轮马车的座驾就是一种马头鱼尾的怪兽。
In famine from the ash, with the bulk of their civilization washed away, the remaining Minoans were overrun by Mycaeneans from Greece, and Knossos finally fell.
从火山灰而来的饥荒，它们文明的牛被冲走，残存的克里特文明被希腊的迈锡尼文明蹂躏，克诺索斯最后倒下了。
It spread out beyond Crete because the Minoans established what we might want to call an empire in various parts of the Mediterranean, and it starts with Crete.
其所覆盖的区域比克里特岛更广阔，因为米诺斯文明建立了，现在我们所称的“帝国”，其疆域分布于地中海的广大地区，它起源于特里克。
It spread out beyond Crete because the Minoans established what we might want to call an empire in various parts of the Mediterranean, and it starts with Crete.
其所覆盖的区域比克里特岛更广阔，因为米诺斯文明建立了，现在我们所称的“帝国”，其疆域分布于地中海的广大地区，它起源于特里克。
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