I would say that typically their impact was greater in the west and the north than it was in the east and the south.

我要说的是,他们对西方和北方的影响,显然比东方和南方更大

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The reason for that was that in the east and in south, the Greeks lived among people who were more civilized than they, who were more advanced.

究其原因,在东方和南方,希腊人生活在比他们更文明,更先进的民族中间

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I think that I would imagine the Greeks sopping up all sorts of useful and interesting information from their neighbors in the east and the south and there's no question about it.

我会想像希腊人,从他们东方和南方的邻居那里,吸收了各种有用和有趣的信息,这是毋庸置疑的

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The isolation of the Greek towns in the Dark Age gives way increasingly to contact with the east and the south, and when I say the south I really mean Egypt and all around the eastern Aegean Sea.

在黑暗时代孤立希腊城镇,开始逐渐增加与东方和南方的接触,当我的南方,实际上指的是埃及,以及所有东爱琴海的周边地区

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