1.The Melians attempted to persuade the Athenians to leave them alone. According to Thucydides, the Athenians would have none of it.
米洛斯岛人试图说服雅典人离去。根据修昔底德所讲，雅典人不同意。
2.thucydides ' use of history is closer to the modern understanding ? a narrative account of a great event with a clear temporal aspect.
修昔底德使用的“历史”接近于现代的意义？？从显然是当时的角度来叙述伟大的事件。
3.Such is Thucydides' noble realism, admiring of greatness in politics and resigned to its limitations.
此即为修昔底德之高贵现实主义，赞赏政治之伟大且顺从其局限。
4.For with Thucydides, more perhaps than with any other great writer, there is not a word but tells.
因为对修昔底德而言，或许比其他任何伟大作家尤甚，此篇文章可谓字字珠玑。
5.He himself was often confused with causes and results, yet misunderstood it as the strength he shared with Thucydides.
他自己经常把原因和结果相混淆，却误以为这是修昔的底斯与他共同的长处。
6.Of course, Thucydides utilizes rhetoric as a historian, not as an orator.
当然，修昔底德利用修辞是作为一位史家的身份，而不是作为一个演说者的身份。
7.John Adams read Thucydides in Greek while being guided through the "labyrinth" of human nature by Swift, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.
约翰·亚当斯阅读希腊文的修希底斯作品，还在斯威夫特、莎士比亚和塞万提斯的指引下探寻人性的“迷宫”；
8.Thucydides famously attributed the Peloponnesian War to the rise in power of Athens and the fear it created in Sparta.
将伯罗奔尼撒战争归因于雅典的崛起及其崛起在斯巴达引起的恐慌是修昔底德的著名论断。
9.But the facts Thucydides reports are pregnant with judgments begging to be born.
但修昔底德记述的事实孕育着产生判断的请求。
10.Underlying this idea is Thucydides' own belief in the binding relationship between greatness and sufferings in human history.
这暗示了他对“苦难与伟大”这一关系在人类历史中具有永恒性的信念。