From the first, Syracuse is an independent polis, autonomous, self- whatever regime it wants, etc.

首先锡拉库萨是一个独立自治的城邦,如,可以独立地决定政体

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You've got great grain fields out there in Syracuse.

你在锡拉库萨有一大片粮田

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Except for two expeditions to Sicily, where he went at the request of Dionysius to help try to establish a philosophical kingship in Syracuse, he remained in Athens teaching and writing.

除了两度前往西西里岛，因应迪欧尼修斯之邀,前去协助建立,位于，Syracuse，的哲学王权，他一直待在雅典教书，写作。

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They established a colony somewhere in the 750's, and soon afterwards,there is a colony established on the east coast of Sicily at what we call Syracuse now, and a rash of others.

他们大约公元前七百五十年在那儿建立殖民地,紧接着,又在西西里岛的东部建立殖民地,那里我们现在叫做锡拉库扎,还有紧随其后大量其他的殖民地

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Syracuse finds itself besieged by the Athenians.

锡拉库萨被雅典人围攻

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The question would have been what will happen if I go and try to settle a colony at the place which I will call Syracuse that's what I've been describing on the southeastern coast of Sicily.

人们提得问题可能会是,如果我去,锡拉库萨建立殖民地,会发生什么事情,这就是我刚才描述过的,发生在西西里东南岸的事

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Why not? These guys that have gone out, let us say to Syracuse, they are your people, they have relatives back home, they have friends back home, it is natural--oh by the way, they're accustomed to worship the gods in the same way that the Corinthians do.

为什么呢,虽然移民已经离家,比如说他们去了锡拉库萨,但他们在家乡有仍有亲朋好友,这很常见,顺道一提,他们敬神的方式,跟科林斯人相同

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