But at the Battle of Marathon, the Athenians won an unexpected victory.

但在这场持久战中，雅典人意外地获得了胜利。

The Athenians fought back at the famous Battle of Marathon two years later.

两年后 ，雅典人在著名的马拉松战役中进行了反击。

Athenians had fewer reasons to be afraid and they didn't live under the same pressures.

雅典人却没有多少理由害怕，他们生活在不同的压力下。

This was not the best feature of the Athenians, yet it was part of their nature.

这无疑不是一种雅典人的好品性，但是这是他们的一种性格。

But knowing how to live is, perhaps, even harder. And this is what the Athenians aimed to do.

但是知道如何活着，也许更艰难。这就是雅典人力求的。

The allies panicked, and were all for taking to their ships and leaving the Athenians to their fate.

雅典人的同盟者开始害怕了，他们要乘自己的船逃离而去并丢下雅典人不管。

Their assemblies had taught the Athenians how to discuss all matters openly, with arguments for and against.

雅典人在他们的公民大会上学会了公开谈论一切事务，发表同意或不同意的意见。

And a great chunk of that money was siphoned off by the Athenians to fund the Acropolis building programme.

其中一大笔钱被雅典用于修建卫城。

In fact, Syracuse eventually defeated the Athenians in battle in this very bay.

事实上，锡拉丘兹最终在这个海湾的战斗中击败了雅典人。

Like many Athenians, the family owns slaves.

和许多雅典人一样，这个家庭拥有奴隶。

The Athenians can’t match the formidable Spartan army on land.

雅典人在陆地上无法与强大的斯巴达军队相提并论。

In this way the Athenians grew rich and could at last afford to make use of their great gifts.

这样，雅典人就富了起来，就能够开始凭他们的才干做一番大事业了。

See, rumor has it the Athenians have already turned you down.

据传雅典人已经拒绝了你。

Decent native Athenians are sidelined and vilified; flashy immigrants and metics are preferred and promoted.

体面的雅典本土人被排挤和诋毁；华而不实的移民和外籍人士受到青睐和提拔。

But many Athenians could at least have their say, and so they took an interest in how their city was run.

但许多雅典居民至少能各抒己见，所以每个人也就都对城市的各项事务感兴趣。

In Herodotus's telling, the Persian Wars began in 499 BCE, when the Athenians assisted a rebellion by Greeks living under Persian rule.

在希罗多徳的描述中，波斯战争开始于公元前499年，雅典人协助希腊人发起了一场反抗波斯统治的战争。

And the Athenians were hardly saintly in all of this, as evidenced by the famous Melian Dialogue.

正如著名的美丽安对话所证明的那样，雅典人在所有这些方面都算不上圣洁。

After a while he went down through the entrance and climbed to the Areopagos hill where Paul had addressed the Athenians.

过了一会儿，他从入口下去，爬上了保罗向雅典人讲话的亚略帕戈斯山。

For the Athenians, it was first and foremost essential to master the art of rhetoric, which means saying things in a convincing manner.

当时的雅典人认为，最重要的事就是要精通演说术，也就是说要能够用令人信服的方式来表达自己的看法。

Enraged, Darius launched his invasion of mainland Greece and met with further success until an encounter against 10,000 Athenians in Marathon.

愤怒的大流士发动了对希腊大陆的入侵， 并取得了进一步的成功，直到在马拉松与 10, 000 名雅典人相遇。