Hiram Bingham was looking for the last citadel of the empire, which was Vilcapampa;

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Remember there is that citadel standing on a high hill; the acropolis as it is called, the polis up high.

要记得在高地上会有一个据点,叫做卫城,城邦的位置更高一些

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So, the citadel and the farmland surrounding it, make up fundamentally the unit which is the Mycenaean kingdom.

因此,以城堡和周围的农田为根基,组成了称为迈锡尼帝国的文明

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On that citadel, on that strongly, rocky fort or citadel, they built what we now identify as the royal palace, the palace of the king.

那个堡垒,在那个坚固的,用岩石建造的城堡或据点之上,他们建造了,我们现在所说的皇家殿堂,国王所居之处

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It just means a physical place, and what it appears to be is the citadel, the fortress that was the center of the towns that grew up after the Bronze Age, after the collapse of the Mycenaean world.

它只是一个物理上的地名,它看上去像城堡,要塞,是在青铜时代完结,迈锡尼世界崩塌之后,所建立的城镇的中心

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