So they had to import that to make their goods as saleable as they wanted and so on.

因此他们需要进口香料,以使他们的货物如预想中可供出售

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It looks like, by the way, that they got much of the perfume from areas outside of Greece.

随便说一下,事实上,很多香料都来自希腊以外

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So you have three main trade routes that cross the country, and they were used by trading caravans that would carry gold and grain and spices and textiles and other goods between Egypt and the rest of the Fertile Crescent and up into Asia Minor.

你有三条主要道路穿过这个国家，他们被通商的车队所使用,驮着金子，谷物，香料，纺织品和其他货物,在埃及与其他肥沃的伊斯兰教国家间,向上到达小亚细亚。

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Some of the best of it came from northeast Africa, as a matter of fact.

一些顶级香料来自非洲东北部

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You've got to put some nice perfume onto it, in order for it to be useable, just as your soap would be pretty horrible without any perfume on it.

你要在其中加入好闻的香料,以便使用,就像肥皂,如果没有香味会很恐怖

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Think of them as some combination of oil and perfume.

可以把它当做油和香料的混合体

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