They've just heard a report from a reconnaissance team that scoped out the land, and that they think that the chances of conquering the Promised Land are very, very slim.

他们刚从侦探小组,那里收到一份侦查地形的报告，他们认为征服应许之地的,希望，非常，非常的渺茫。

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The first is they're topographical and what this means is that if two parts of the— two parts are close together on the body, they'll be close together on the brain.

首先它们是具有地形学特点的,这意味着,如果身体上的两个部位是紧挨着的话,那它们在大脑中对应的区域也是紧挨着的

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So, they do, in fact, seek such a field.

所以,实际上,他们需要找这样的地形

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s very important but it's also pretty nearly impossible because the difficulty of the terrain, the people who are divided by this border do not recognize the border and the Afghanastan has never recognized it as an international border.

但其实也是几乎不可能的，It’,因为那里的地形很复杂，被这个边境线所分开的人们并不认可这个边境线,阿富汗人不认可这个边境线。

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That was not the Greece of antiquity.

但古希腊地形并非如此

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Yeah, this is not a bad time for me to remind you that in one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says the Greeks sit like frogs around a pond and that pond is the Aegean Sea.

下面引用一下,柏拉图记录的一段对话,苏格拉底说希腊地形,就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘,而那池塘就是爱琴海

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