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。

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But the Minoans sometimes were too clever for their own good.

不过米农人有时也会聪明反被聪明误。

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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。

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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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The Minoans are not Greeks.

米诺斯人不是希腊人

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That is not true for Crete because, although they had a script-- and we have available to us tablets with those writings on them-- to this day no one has deciphered the language written by the Minoans.

不过对于克里特来说不行,因为,虽然他们的确有一些手稿存世...,我们能够看到这些写着字的残片,不过直到今天,没有一个人能破译米诺斯文明的文字

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Evans's restorations, while intended to preserve the Minoans' unique architecture, also reflected his imaginative theories about the luxurious lifestyle of Crete's prehistoric ruling class.

ECONOMIST: Bullshot

Evans wanted fervently to believe that the Minoans' wealth in the late Bronze Age was based on a powerful seafaring empire that extended to mainland Greece.

ECONOMIST: Bullshot

Thus the Minoans became part of Evans's late-Victorian world view.

ECONOMIST: Bullshot