The Greeks treated women as subhuman.
希腊人将妇女当作次等人类来对待。
The Greeks were wedded to the sea; the Romans, to the land.
希腊人热爱海洋;罗马人热爱陆地。
The Greeks coming to Troy needed a port to anchor their ships.
来到特洛伊的希腊人需要一个港口来停泊他们的船只。
The ancient Greeks developed basic memory systems called mnemonics.
古希腊人发明了一种叫做助记术的基本记忆系统。
They are sort of prehistoric monsters as far as the Greeks are concerned.
在希腊人看来,他们是史前的怪物。
The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet.
希腊人发展了这个系统,形成了希腊字母表的字母。
Is there something intrinsic to the Greek language that encourages Greeks to interrupt?
希腊语言是否有某种内在的东西鼓励希腊人打断别人?
They will compete with each other in the nude because that is the way Greeks exercised.
他们将裸身竞赛,因为那是古希腊人运动的方式。
This attitude would have surprised the ancient Greeks, who believed humor to be essentially aggressive.
这种态度会让古希腊人感到惊讶,他们认为幽默本质上是具有攻击性的。
Second, the idea of an Earth that moved didn't fit in with the ancient Greeks' understanding of gravity.
第二,地球会运动的观点不符合古希腊人对万有引力的理解。
We know that the first colony that the Greeks established was in the Bay of Naples on the island of Ischia.
我们知道希腊建立的第一个殖民地是在那不勒斯湾的伊斯基尔岛。
The Greeks discovered that human memory is largely an associative process that it works by linking things together.
希腊人发现,人类的记忆在很大程度上是一种联想过程,通过把事物联系在一起来运作。
"Had the Greeks held novelty in such disdain as we," asked Horace in his epistle, "what work of ancient date would now exist?"
霍勒斯在他的书信中问道:“如果希腊人也像我们这样鄙视新奇事物,那么古代的作品现在还会存在吗?”
It is inconceivable the Greeks could have developed a civilization that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations.
难以想象,希腊人可以在没有与这些东方文明的联系情况下,建立了一个伟大的文明。
The ancient Greeks believed that what we called the solar system was in fact the entire universe, and that the universe was geocentric.
古希腊人坚信,我们所谓的太阳系实际上就是整个宇宙,并且宇宙以地球为中心。
I ought to say a word about death, in order to comprehend what the Greeks thought. You know, different peoples have had different ideas about them.
我得说一下有关死亡的事,为了理解希腊人的思维。你们知道,不同人对于死亡的观念是不同的。
There are superstitions attached to numbers; even those ancient Greeks believed that all numbers and their multiples had some mystical significance.
迷信与数字有关;甚至那些古希腊人也相信所有的数字及其倍数都具有神秘的意义。
For the Greeks, the same mathematical principles that govern music also govern the universe as well as the human character, the essence of personality.
对希腊人来说,控制音乐的数学原理同样也控制着宇宙和人的性格(即人格的本质)。
As a result of divination, Apollo was angry with the Greeks. Because Agamemnon robbed his father's maiden, and his father was the high priest of Apollo.
占卜的结果是,阿波罗对希腊人发怒了。因为阿伽门农抢了自己父亲的女仆,而他父亲是阿波罗的大祭司。
From the Greeks to the Great War, its job was simple: to struggle with lethal diseases and gross disabilities, to ensure live births, and to manage pain.
从希腊时代到第一次世界大战,它的工作很简单:与致命疾病和严重残疾作斗争,确保生育以及减少病痛。
Temporal hours, which were first adopted by the Greeks and then the Romans, who disseminated them through Europe, remained in use for more than 2,500 years.
计时法最初由希腊人采用,后来由罗马人在欧洲传播,至今已使用了2500多年。
The Greeks improved upon it and made it a true alphabet by taking some signs that they didn't need for their own language by turning them into vowel sounds.
希腊人将它改良,他们通过把一些他们自己的语言中并不需要的符号变成元音使用,使其成为真正的字母表。
Spain has lovely white towns and the scent of oranges, but it is also a treasury of ancient remains including the cities left by the Greeks, Romans and Arabs.
西班牙有可爱的白色小镇和橘子的香味,但它也是古代遗迹的宝库,包括希腊人、罗马人和阿拉伯人留下的城市。
The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.
古希腊人提出的古代哲学的好处是,他们倾向于以清晰而完整的方式看待生活,而今天的我们却不愿这样看待生活。
Yet there is a dark side to this picture: despite our progress, half of the world's population still suffers, with water services inferior to those available to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
然而,这种情况也有其黑暗的一面:尽管我们取得了进步,世界上仍有一半的人口在受苦,供水服务还不如古希腊和古罗马人。
The Greeks were well-done for their literature and science, but their "books" looked very different from the books of today.
希腊人在文学和科学方面做得很好,但他们的“书”看起来与今天的书非常不同。
The ancient Greeks first had the idea of putting vegetables on pieces of bread, and "Pizza ovens" have been found in Roman cities.
古希腊人首先有了把蔬菜放在面包片上的想法,罗马城里也发现了“比萨饼烤箱”。
"The Greeks and Romans," said the old man, "called her a Dryad; but that we do not understand."
老人回答说:“罗马人和希腊人把她称为树仙,但我们不明白。”
There's the whole idea—we've already given you some sense that the Greeks were ancestor worshippers.
这就是整个观点——我们已经给了你们古希腊人对祖先甚是尊敬的感觉。
If we're going to understand the philosophy, we have to first understand that music for the Greeks was about much more than entertainment.
如果我们想要理解这种哲理,必须首先认识到对希腊人而言,音乐不仅仅是种娱乐消遣。
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