One of my favorite examples is the colony on the south shore of the Bosporus, which is called Chalcedon.
其中一个我很常举的例子就是,在博斯普鲁斯南部海岸的殖民地,叫做卡尔西顿
The American people, well, America used to be a British colony
美国人,美国曾经是英国的一个殖民地,
He was called an Oikistes; he is the found of the colony.
他们被叫做Oikistes,也就是建立殖民地的人
Actually the City of Corinth wouldn't have been taxed because it was a Roman colony, and one of the benefits of being a Roman colony is that you didn't have to pay taxes, or at least the citizens didn't have to pay taxes.
事实上科林斯城以前从不收税,因为它是罗马的殖民地,成为罗马殖民地的一个好处是,不必交税,或者至少公民不用付。
This is also -I keep thinking how British we are; this is New England and this is the United States, a former British colony.
这也是...,我常想,我们真的很"英国",这里称为新英格兰地区,而美国过去也是英国的殖民地
So, I use the word colony because that's what we have for all such establishments of the kind we're talking about.
所以我之所以用殖民地这个词,是因为描述这种扩张行为我们只有这个词
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亚岛
Somebody in one of the old Greek cities has to decide that he wants to go out and establish a colony.
在其中一个古希腊的城市中,突然有个人决定要建立一个殖民地
Okay, so this gives you some idea of the range of possible relationships between colony and mother city.
好了,那么这就使你们,对殖民地与母邦之间的关系,有了一定的了解
That's the very first place where there is a tradition of a Greek colony having been planted.
就是在那个地方,古希腊人历史上第一次建立了殖民地
There's no question that there was a Greek colony there and as I say the archaeological remains confirm the general time for this happening.
这是确凿无误的,但是,正如我所说,考古学上仍有某些有待解决的问题
The question is who gave permission for a colony to go in the mother city.
你问的是,在母邦是谁批准建立殖民地的
What is more typical, I think, is that he thinks, I would like to take and have found a colony on the southeastern coast of Sicily. Why?
比较常见的是,我觉得,他会说,我想要在西西里的东南海岸,建立一个殖民地,为什么呢
But here's how it worked--by the way, the word I have been using, colony is not a Greek word and really not appropriate for what the Greeks are up to.
大概是这样的,顺便说下,我说的殖民地,不是古希腊语,而且用于古希腊殖民不太贴切
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
Sparta starts at an early point, sends out a colony to southern Italy at some time, probably early, they sent out a colony to an island in the Aegean Sea, Melos, and then they stopped and never sent out another colony.
斯巴达要早一些,某一时期在意大利南部建设过殖民地,也许更早的时候,曾在爱琴海上的岛屿米洛斯殖民,然后他们的殖民活动戛然而止,并从未再开始
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