Once we sort of settle into this vocabulary, and once we get used to this clearly unquestioningly scientific perspective, why on earth do we need pseudo-statement or fiction at all?

一旦我们习惯了这种用语，一旦我们习惯了,这种科学视角，我们为什么还需要伪陈述和虚构呢？

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For others, it was necessary to go further and to settle the west coast of Asia Minor, which, indeed, this is a great period of Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor.

对于另外一些人,则必须走得更远,在小亚细亚西海岸定居,而这事实上,确实是希腊人向小亚细亚西海岸,拓殖的黄金时期

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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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How could you possibly settle there, because they settled Chalcedon first and the tradition that the Greeks pass on is the people who settle chalcedon were blind men, because you would have to be blind to make that choice.

他们怎么能建立在那个不毛之地呢,因为他们先前在卡尔西顿定居了,根据古希腊的传统记载,住在那里的人都是盲人,因为只有盲人才会去那个地方住

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