世界小史 第114期:华丽的宫殿

They used it to build themselves magnificent palaces and held court in great style. 他们用这些钱建造华丽的宫殿，君臣上朝议事时非常气派。 They ate off golden dishes and even their slaves both male and female were dressed in s

世界小史 第115期:以儆效尤

Now his father had left him everything. 如今他的父亲把一切都留给了他。 A Greek city that tried to free itself was razed, and its inhabitants sold into slavery as a warning to all. 一座希腊城市想获得解放，它会被夷为平地

世界小史 第116期:全部知识

What Aristotle said must be right. 亚里士多德说的话，必定都是真知灼见。 For what he had done was to gather together all the knowledge of his time. 因为他所做的是搜集了在他那个时代所能知道的全部知识。 He wro

世界小史 第117期:布克法罗斯

His father once bought a beautiful stallion that no one could tame. 有一次他父亲买了一匹特别漂亮的公马，谁也驯服不了这匹马，His name was Bucephalus. Whenever anyone tried to mount him they were thrown off. 这匹马叫布克

世界小史 第118期:科林斯市广场

So he had given away everything he owned and now sat, almost naked, in a barrel in the market square in Corinth where he lived,所以他散尽了全部家产，几乎赤身裸体地坐在科林斯市广场上的一只桶里。他居住在那里，as

世界小史 第119期:马其顿人

A king like this was soon as popular with the Greek soldiers as he was with the Macedonians. 军队里的希腊人不久便和马其顿人一样喜爱这样一位国王。 They were more than willing to fight for him. 他们乐意为他而战斗。 S

世界小史 第120期:戈尔迪乌姆城

It went like this. 故事是这样的。 In the city of Gordium there was a temple, and in it an old chariot whose shaft was held fast by a strap that was tightly and intricately knotted. 在戈尔迪乌姆城的一座神庙里有一辆旧马车，辕杆

世界小史 第121期:波斯人

The Persians tried to block his way near a town called Issus, but Alexander crushed them. 波斯人试图在一座名叫伊苏斯的城市附近阻挡他的道路，但亚历山大击溃了他们。 He plundered the magnificent royal tents and made o

世界小史 第123期:心满意足

Alexander punished the assassins. 亚历山大惩罚了杀人凶手。 Now he was king of the whole of Persia. 他现在是全波斯的国王。 Greece, Egypt, Phoenicia, Palestine, Babylonia, Assyria, Asia Minor and Persia all these were now part of

世界小史 第124期:忏悔者

But the Indians did not submit to him willingly. 但是印度人并没有自愿臣服于他。 The hermits and penitents in the forests denounced the conquerors from the distant West in their sermons. 森林里的忏悔者们和遁世修行者们都纷

世界小史 第125期:亚历山大

What do you want of me? asked Alexander. Only that you treat me as befits a king. 你对我有什么要求？亚历山大问。我要你像对待君王那样对待我。 And that is all? That is all, came the reply, there is no more to be said. 没有别

世界小史 第126期:原路返回

Of course it would have been far the simplest thing to do, since those regions had already been conquered. 当然原路返回要省事得多，因为沿路各地区都已被占领。 But Alexander wanted new sights and new conquests. 但是亚历山大

世界小史 第127期:盾牌

His men shouted to him to jump back down. 士兵们向他大声喊叫，要他赶快跳回来。 Instead he leapt straight into the city and, with his back to the ramparts, defended himself with his shield against overwhelming odds. 但是他却一跃直

世界小史 第128期:下跪

Anyone who came into his presence had to fall on their knees before him and speak to him as if he were a god. 任何人来到他的面前必须向他下跪并仿佛他真的是一个神似的同他讲话。 And in the manner of Oriental kings he had

世界小史 第129期:亚历山大

Alexander never realized his great ambition of mingling the two peoples, 亚历山大的融合两个民族的伟大事业怎么也成功不了，亚历山大的融合两个民族的伟大事业怎么也成功不了， even though he handed out rich d

世界小史 第130期:多里安人和伊安尼尔人

Egypt was then governed by a family of generals the Ptolemies. 接着一个将领家族统治了埃及托勒密王室。 The Seleucids ruled Mesopotamia, and the Attalids Asia Minor. 塞琉古王室统治了美索不达米亚，安提克王室统治了

世界小史 第131期:亚历山大

Alexander only went east. Although 'only' may not be quite the right word! 亚历山大只向东方进军。只当然并非是个正确的词！ But the lands that lay to the west of Greece did not tempt him just a couple of Phoenician and Greek colo

世界小史 第132期:罗马城

Romulus, so the myth goes, founded Rome. 这则神话说罗穆卢斯建立了罗马城。 They even had a date for it, 753 BC, and would later count the years from that date as the Greeks did from the Olympiads. 人们甚至说出建城的年代：公元

世界小史 第133期:贵族

These were the patricians the word means something like 'city fathers' although in those days they weren't citizens as we know them, 这些人是patricians（贵族）这个词的意思大致相当于市议员但是你不可以把这个时代的市议员

世界小史 第134期:屈服

Unlike the gentle Indians they didn't willingly submit. 不同于温和的印度人，他们不愿意屈服。 On more than one occasion they threatened to leave the city unless they were treated better and given a share of the fields and pastures wh