The dye initially used to make purple came from the Phoenician trading city of Tyre, which is now in modern-day Lebanon.

一开始用来制造紫色的染料来自腓尼基的贸易城市泰尔，也就现在的黎巴嫩。

Cadmus was a skilled warrior and heir to the Phoenician throne.

卡德摩斯一位技艺精湛的战士，也腓尼基王位的继承人。

No sooner did the Phoenicians hear of these cities than they sailed there to trade.

腓尼基人一得知这些城市，便迅速扬帆驶去，到那儿去经商。

The Asian cult of the Magna mater imported towards the end of the second Punic war in 205 BC included the self-castrated eunuch priests of their self-castrated god Attis. Ouch.

公元前205年签署腓尼基和约后，罗马引进了众神之母的信仰包括自我阉割的神阿提斯。

It is the ancestor to nearly all major scripts in use today, via a long chain of inheritance going through the Phoenicians, Greeks and all the way to the Latins.

它几乎所有主要文字体系的鼻祖，这一传承链条漫长而深远，经由腓尼基人、希腊人一路传递至拉丁人。

Permanent trading posts became a necessity, as did regular weigh stations, since most Phoenician ships stayed close to the coast and only sailed during the day.

久性的贸易站和常规的称重站成为了必需品，因为大多数腓尼基船只都靠近海岸，只在白天航行。

But Mr Kaakour had a goal, to reinvigorate the groves-and Lebanon's longdormant olive-oil industry, which traces its roots all the way back to the Phoenicians.

不先生有一个目标，那就重振橄榄园和黎巴嫩长期休眠的橄榄油产业，而其根源可以追溯到腓尼基人。

Similar confidence is on display at a Hezbollah museum that opened last week in the village above Baalbek, an ancient Phoenician and Roman city in the Bekaa Valley.

巴勒贝克村贝卡谷地的腓尼基古城和罗马古城，上周在巴勒贝克村开馆的真主党博物馆也展示了类似的信心。

But it's often attributed to this guy, Daniel Jones, a Phonetician. I almost said a Phoenician, which is not the same thing.

但这通常被归因于这个人，丹尼尔·琼斯，一个发音学家。我差点说成腓尼基人了，这完全两回事。

The Phoenicians were no more successful, although they bequeathed a memorable nickname to posterity: I-shepan-ha, “land of hyraxes” (more familiar as Hispania).

腓尼基人虽为后世流传下”I-shepan-ha”，“蹄兔之地”的绰号（比Hispania更为人知），但也未能更胜一筹。

As Zeno ran away from shame, Crates said, " Why run away, little Phoenician? Nothing terrible has happened to you."

芝诺羞于逃跑，克拉底说：“为什么要逃跑，小腓尼基人？你并没有发生什么可怕的事。”

Ancient Greeks adopted X from the Phoenicians and called it chi like in the ancient Greek words Kristos or Chimera.

古希腊人采用了腓尼基人的 X，并称它为 chi，就像古希腊语中的 Kristos 或 Chimera。

People from the Phoenicians to the Polynesians to early Hindu astronomers developed their own tools to interpret the position and movement of stars and figure out how far north or south they were.

从腓尼基人到波利尼西亚人再到早期信奉印度教的天文学家，人们发明出自己的工具来解释恒星的位置和运动计算出恒星在南方或北方的距离。

There are accounts which say that the Phoenicians were known as " purple people" by the Greeks; as told by Herodotus, because the dye would stain the skin of the workers purple.

有记载说腓尼基人被希腊人称为“紫色的人”；正希罗多德所说，因为染料会把工人的皮肤染成紫色。

Sicily had long since ben settled by Greek and Phoenician colonists and was packed with city states of its own, many of which were older and more established than Rome.

西西里岛早就有希腊人居住还有腓尼基人殖民，那里还有大量它自己的城邦绝大多数城邦都比罗马更加古老。

Everywhere they went they were welcomed, in Africa, Spain and in southern Italy, on account of the beautiful things they brought.

在非洲，在西班牙和南意大利，人们到处都欢迎腓尼基人，因为他们带来美好的东西。

Many Phoenicians stayed in their trading posts on foreign shores and built towns.

许多腓尼基人留在他们在外国海岸的商行并在那里建立城镇。

Deposits of murex shells have been found on the outskirts of Sidon and Tyre to keep the smell away from the living spaces of the city, no doubt, as well as at Phoenician colonies across the Mediterranean, including Carthage.

在西顿和提尔的郊区发现了骨螺贝类的沉积物，这使气味远离城市的生活空间，毫无疑问，还包括迦太基在内的地中海腓尼基殖民地。

Their bowls were crafted in gold, silver or bronze, and many have Phoenician inscriptions which has helped identify the bowl's origins, with some found as far away as Nimrud, Delphi, and Salerno.

他们的碗用金、银或青铜制成的，许多碗上有腓尼基铭文，这有助于确定碗的起源，有些碗远在尼姆鲁德、德尔菲和萨勒诺发现。

Their first king was Saul, who fought against the neighboring tribe, with the Philistines, and died on the battlefield.

掌管这个国家的第一任国王扫罗，他与毗邻部族腓尼基人作战并在这场战斗中阵亡。