It emerged into an institution in which banks would have notes bank notes-that circulated widely and we began to think of them as money.

它出现于一个银行保有票据,的机构,这个票据就是钞票---那种流通广泛的钞票,我们把它视为金钱。

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So, what you have to imagine is sometime back, I would argue, in the Mycenaean Period, somebody began making up one of these songs, telling the story of Greeks going to attack the city of Troy.

所以,你们想象一下在过去的某时,我当然是说在迈锡尼文明时期,有人开始创作这些诗歌中的某一首,它描述了希腊人攻打特洛伊的故事

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And so the stories couldn't have been simple inventions, and that began a new phase in the story. And, again, to repeat what I said last time, there were certain stunning physical resemblances between what Homer said and what we could see.

所以,神话传说并不只是人们的空想,这样事情就有所不同了,同时,我重复下我上次所说的,《荷马史诗》所描述的世界,在当今确有令人吃惊的实物证据

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