While we don't know where the first Celts came from, by Alexander's time they had spread across Europe from Asia Minor in the east to Spain and the Atlantic islands of Britain and Ireland in the west.

虽然我们并不知道最初凯尔特人来自何方，但到了亚历山大年代，他们已经散居到了欧洲各地，东至小亚细亚，西至西班牙及不列颠大西洋群岛与爱尔兰诸岛。

Later, they went even further, and founded cities far across the sea away from Greece, along the fertile coast of Asia Minor, with its many sheltering bays.

然后他们继续向前推进并也希腊对面拥有众多小港湾、肥沃小亚细亚海岸建立了城市。

As Rome expanded, so did their religion as they adopted and absorbed facets of religion from the Balkans, Asia Minor and Egypt, although the primary influence would always be Greece.

马扩张，他们宗教也扩张，他们采用并吸收了巴尔干半岛、小亚细亚和埃及宗教内容，尽管主要影响始终是希腊。

To enhance their performance against Hannibal, the Romans at this time brought in the cult of the Magna Mater, the Great Mother from Asia Minor, with some genuinely zany circumstances, which I will discuss later.

为了更好与汉尼拔作战，那时马人引入一种祭祀礼仪那被称为玛格纳玛特，也就是小亚细亚始母，也有一些滑稽场景，我待会儿还会讲到。

Either the Nautilus surfaced only enough to let its pilothouse emerge, or it slipped away to the lower depths, although, between the Greek Islands and Asia Minor, we didn't find bottom even at 2,000 meters down.

或者诺第留斯号浮出来，只让领航人水面，或者就潜到很深水底下去。因为希腊群岛和小亚细亚之，我们找不到深两千米海底。

If that second theory is true, then the word is probably far older than we think—it might have roots in some even more ancient language of southeast Europe or Asia Minor.

如果第二种理论是正确，那么这个词可能比我们想象要古老得多——它可能起源于东南欧或小亚细亚某种更古老语言。

Ephesus was a Greek colony in Asia Minor where the Temple of Artemis stood.

以弗所是希腊小亚细亚殖民地，那里有阿尔忒弥斯神庙。

A contemporary of Parmenides was Heraclitus (c. 540-480 BC), who was from Ephesus in Asia Minor.

帕梅尼德斯时代另有一位哲学家叫做赫拉克里特斯(约公元前540～公元前480)。当时他从以弗所(Ephesus)来到小亚细亚。

He was from Asia Minor but he moved to Athens at the age of 40.

他生长于小亚细亚，但四十岁时迁居雅典。

Darius now began to extend his empire out into Asia Minor, along whose coasts lay the cities of the Ionian Greeks.

这个大流士还把帝国扩展到小亚细亚，那些伊安尼尔人希腊城市便坐落小亚细亚海岸。

He dealt with the Ionian cities in Asia Minor in less than no time. But he wasn't finished yet.

他很快就平息了小亚细亚伊安尼尔城市造反运动。但是他还不满足于此。

What about the conquest of Sardis, the capital of Lydia in Asia Minor, now Turkey?

关于征服吕底亚（今土耳其小亚细亚）首都萨尔迪斯事呢？

How can I pretend to meddle with the ancient geography of Asia Minor?

小亚细亚古代地理，我怎么能假装插手呢？

They came from Persia but quickly spread  across Asia Minor during the eleventh century; they took a significant portion of Byzantine  land in the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. They even captured Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV  Diogenes!

他们来自波斯，但十一世纪迅速传播到小亚细亚。他们 1071 年曼齐克特战役中占领了拜占庭很大一部分土地。他们甚至俘虏了拜占庭皇帝曼努斯四世第欧根尼！

The ancient Greeks flung out their colonies in every direction, westward as far as Gaul, across the Mediterranean, and eastward into Asia Minor, perhaps to the very confines of India.

古希腊人将他们殖民地抛向四面八方， 向西远达高卢，横跨地中海， 向东进入小亚细亚， 也许一直延伸到印度边界。

I won't actually have to say more than one, but first of all, just to give a more general impression of, for example, what you can see in Anatolia, Asia Minor.

实际上我只需要说一个，但首先，只是为了给大家一个更广泛印象，比如你安纳托利亚、小亚细亚能看到什么。

Odysseus's return from Asia Minor to his kingdom on the Ionian Isle of Ithaca, off the west coast of Greece, should have taken a week at most by sea.

从亚洲小亚细亚返回希腊西部沿海爱奥尼亚群岛伊萨卡王国，奥德修斯航程按理最多只需一周。

At present, after a side-glance at the drama, I understand he's devoting what is left of his father's money to archaeological explorations in Asia Minor.

目前，从剧中侧面看，我知道他正将他父亲剩下钱用于小亚细亚考古勘探。

From Asia Minor the fig spread west across the Mediterranean where it was thought to be a gift from the gods.

无花果从小亚细亚向西传播到整个地中海地区，人们认为它是神礼物。

Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon?

难道不是小亚细亚地理环境， 她这方面懈怠经常被卡苏朋先生斥责吗？