They have a very high respect for a criminal Jew, who led some kind of guerilla war and was executed long ago, somewhere in Syria.

他们非常尊敬一名犹太罪犯，他指挥了某种游击战，很久以前被处死了，就在叙利亚某处。

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What oriental? That means mainly the Tigris and Euphrates, Mesopotamia, Syria,all those older civilizations and much more advanced civilizations than the Greek.

哪个东方,这主要指底格里斯河和,幼发拉底河文明,美索不达米亚文明,以及叙利亚文明等这些旧文明,它们都比希腊先进的多

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And what Alexander and his successors did was they took that basic Greek structure, and they transplanted it all over the Eastern Mediterranean, whether they were in Egypt or Syria or Asia Minor or anyplace else.

而亚历山大和他的继业者,把这些希腊式结构，移植到了地中海东部各地，无论是埃及，叙利亚，小亚细亚还是其他地方。

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Because, if Iraq spreads if you can't get peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and that conflict continues, conflict in Lebanon, conflict with Syria Then you have the Iraq War turning into complete chaos.

如果伊拉克问题蔓延,或是如果不能解决巴以冲突，or，indenpendently，如果冲突加剧，黎巴嫩问题，叙利亚问题,伊拉克战争现在已经发展到一团糟。

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But for now all you need to know is - that these four different kingdoms-- one was where we now have Greece, another one was where Syria is, another was Egypt, and then there was another further north, but that's not as important for us.

不过目前你们只需要知道,这四个不同的王国-,一个是当今的希腊，一个是当今的叙利亚，一个是埃及，还有一个在更北面的地方，不过对我们来说不是很重要。

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Or they'd get to Syria, "Look at all these god that the Syrians worship.

他们去了叙利亚会说“看看叙利亚人崇拜的神“

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So they took these Roman legions away, and they sent them to Syria.

所以他们调走了部分军队，派去了叙利亚。

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The real sort of typical home of the kinds of things were talking about is Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, the Tigress, Euphrates Valley, which spread out beyond Iraq and went up into Syria and neighboring places.

我们所讨论的这些旧文明中的典型大约,起源于美索不达米亚,即现在的伊拉克,在底格里斯河,幼发拉底河流域,其范围超过了伊拉克,还包括叙利亚以及邻近地区

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Which is why you can travel right now to Turkey or Syria or Israel or Jordan or Egypt, and you can see excavations of towns, and it's remarkable how they all look so much alike, because they're all inspired by this originally Greek model of the city.

如果你现在去土耳其,叙利亚，以色列，约旦或埃及旅游，就会发现当地考古挖掘出的古城镇，都惊人的相似，因为都是根据古希腊模型建的。

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