The name came from the ancient Greeks.
VOA: special.2009.06.10
The Jews were not considered Greeks, but at least they were higher in status in Alexandrian law than local Egyptians.
犹太人不是希腊人,但在法律规定却比当地埃及人地位高。
So these Greeks would say, "Well, we have another Goddess of the Hunt," and you'd find other Goddesses of the Hunt.
于是这些希腊人会说,“我们也有狩猎女神“,其他神话中也有狩猎女神。
They did, but the Greeks rejected it. The row over the ports could reach a head at the end of this year.
VOA: standard.2009.10.15
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 has average Greeks worried,confused and angry, says reporter Anthee Carassava, who spoke with VOA from Athens.
VOA: standard.2010.04.28
After the Greeks laid out their fifths and fourths and whole steps, they had these little leftovers.
当希腊人安排好,五度音程,四度音程和全音级后,他们还有一些剩余
Opinion polls show the majority of Greeks are against an IMF-EU bailout, seeing it as foreign interference.
VOA: standard.2010.04.28
How would you have had the great Greek playwrights, they would argue, without the system, the world the Greeks were able to create with the Helots?
还有伟大的古希腊戏剧家是怎样来的,没有这个制度,希腊人怎能用奴隶创造昔日的繁荣
Polls show that despite the social protests, the majority of Greeks support the government's austerity measures.
VOA: standard.2010.02.26
So, this will be significant as we talk about how the Greeks differed from them, which gets us to the Greeks.
而希腊与这些的区别将是我们讨论的重点,让我们回到希腊的话题上
He tells his supporters that"the seed of divisions was planted centuries ago" as "our grandfathers were divided for instance to Greeks,Bulgarians,Serbs, and our fathers to communists" and ruling party members.
VOA: standard.2009.03.22
The Greeks were, even though they went to sea plenty, they were terrified of the sea for very good reason.
那时的古希腊人,虽然时常出海,但他们也是非常惧怕大海的
"Greeks just simply do not know what the next day will spell for them, what this EU-IMF rescue package is all about, what it will actually mean for their pockets."
VOA: standard.2010.04.28
But there's one thing that the Romans made even more of, than the Greeks had made of, and this is the patron-client structure.
但有一样东西罗马人比希腊人,做得更极致,即庇护关系。
When you speak about Greeks you will be speaking about something more than merely the fact that they spoke a certain language.
当你谈论到希腊人的时候,你不仅仅说,他们只是讲一种特定语言的人群
The Greeks, as far as I know, did not allow anybody to be left handed in a phalanx; think about the problem.
希腊人,据我所知,在方阵里中不允许有左撇子,思考下这个问题
But what you need to understand about the Greeks is that they don't eat a lot of meat.
但是你们需要理解的是,希腊人并不常食肉
Most of the influence,I suspect, was going one way in those days- from the more advanced civilization of the east to the Greeks.
而且我怀疑,绝大多数影响,在那些日子中是单边流向的,从东方更高级的文明流向希腊
If we do that, the Greeks would have said, "That is stupid and absurd to think for ten seconds you'll realize that's no good."
如果我们这么做,那古希腊人会说,"那是一派胡言,你只要想个十秒钟就能明白这样没好处"
Since, the Greeks really didn't believe in personal immortality, how do you find what everybody wants?
因为希腊人的确不相信个人的永生,你如何找到他们想要什么
That's very different from the Greeks, very different from other people in the Ancient Mediterranean.
这与希腊人非常不同,与其他古代地中海地区也不同。
So, the fact that this was a Greek script that was available in the Mycenaean Period tells us very confidently that the Mycenaeans were Greeks.
所以,这个在迈锡尼时期出现的,希腊语书写方法,让我们有足够理由说,迈锡尼人就是希腊人
So then you have Xenophon writing his Anabasis, The March Back, telling the story of how those 1,500-- those 10,000 Greeks rather got back home.
所以当色诺芬书写《远征记》时,讲述这一千五百,哦,是一万希腊人凯旋而归的故事
If you had to pick a central focus of where the Greeks were, it would be in the Aegean Sea. So that's useful to remember.
如果你要在古希腊寻找一中心位置,那就是爱琴海,所以这很容易理解
He says that the Greeks never invented anything, but everything they borrowed they improved upon.
他说希腊实际上从没有发明什么事物,但是对借来的每一种事物都做出了改进
It is inconceivable the Greeks could have developed a civilization that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations and learned a great deal from them.
难以想象,希腊人可以在脱离与东方的联系,并未向东方学习的情况下,建立一个与其同样伟大的文明
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.
我得说一下有关死亡的事儿,好让你们更容易理解希腊人的思维,你们知道,不同人对于死亡的观念是不同的
In Italy, some of these cities were able to gain control of the surrounding country and to become city states, resembling those of the ancient Greeks.
在意大利,一些城市还潜移默化地,影响了周边的区域,形成了城邦,这与古希腊的城市情况非常相似
now, this is a remarkable leap, even beyond the humanism of the greeks, something brand new in the world.
这是一个历史性的飞跃,甚至超越了古希腊的人道主义,当时,这是一种先锋思想
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