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When the boy was born like all Spartans, he was inspected.
當(dāng)這名男嬰出生后，必須像每個斯巴達(dá)人一樣接受檢驗。
If he'd been small or puny or sickly or misshapen he would've been discarded.
如果他太瘦小、太孱弱，生病或是殘廢，就會被拋棄。
From the time he could stand, he was baptized in the fire of combat.
當(dāng)他長大到剛能站穩(wěn)的那一刻開始，便要接受戰(zhàn)火的洗禮。
Taught never to retreat, never to surrender, taught that death on the battlefield in service to Sparta is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life.
被教導(dǎo)絕不退縮、絕不投降，并被灌輸一個觀念：為斯巴達(dá)戰(zhàn)死沙場是人一生所能成就的最大榮耀。
At age seven, as is customary in Sparta, the boy was taken from his mother and plunged into a world of violence.
依照斯巴達(dá)的傳統(tǒng)，男孩七歲就從母親身邊被帶走，投入到一個殘酷的暴力世界。
Manufactured by 300 years, a Spartan warrior society to create the finest soldiers the world has ever known.
經(jīng)過300年的嬗變，斯巴達(dá)的勇士社會創(chuàng)造出了有史以來世上最好的戰(zhàn)士。
The agoge, as it's called. It forces the boy to fight. Starves them, forces them to steal, and if necessary, to kill.
正如其名，斯巴達(dá)的“酷煉”，強(qiáng)迫男孩戰(zhàn)斗，讓他們餓肚子、偷食物。有必要的話，讓他們?nèi)⑷恕?/div>
By rod and lash, the boy was punished. Taught to show no pain, no mercy.
男孩經(jīng)常受到棒打和鞭笞的懲罰。教導(dǎo)他痛苦不行于色、對敵人不要憐憫。
Constantly tested, tossed into the wild. Left to pit his wits and will against nature's fury.
他被扔在了野外，接受更多的考驗，只能用他的智慧和意志去對抗大自然的暴虐
It was his initiation. His time in the wild. For he would return to his people a Spartan or not at all.
他在野外的時期只是一個開始。他必須成為強(qiáng)悍的戰(zhàn)士才能返回斯巴達(dá)，否則便將尸骨無存。
