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.
对希腊人来说,控制音乐的数学原理同样也控制着宇宙和人的性格(即人格的本质)。
For the Greeks, the same mathematical principles that govern music also govern the universe as well as the human character, the essence of personality.
如果我们想要理解这种哲理,必须首先认识到对希腊人而言,音乐不仅仅是种娱乐消遣。
If we're going to understand the philosophy, we have to first understand that music for the Greeks was about much more than entertainment.
For the Greeks,on the other hand as I've said, political society was essential for living any kind of a good life.
对于希腊人,就像我说的另外一方面,对他们而言,政治社会,是人们获得幸福生活的关键
That's a very strange thing because the Greeks turn out to be an enormously active seafaring people with tremendous fear of the seas.
但奇怪的是,希腊人,虽然对海洋有着极度的恐惧,但同时,他们又是一个活跃于海上的民族
So, they are,of course, sort of prehistoric monsters as far as the Greeks are concerned.
因此对希腊人而言,他们就是一群史前怪物
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