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This time it was the Huns. People like these had never been seen before in the West: small, yellow men with narrow, slit eyes and terrifying scars on their faces. 那便是匈奴人。这样的部落人们在西方还从未见过，矮小、黄皮肤的
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But we only catch glimpses, because our light is now falling faster and faster: 1,000 years， 5,000 years， 10,000 years. 但是我们只在一瞬间看见了这情景，因为我们的火光越坠越快，越坠越快，1千年，5千年，1万年。
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The wind buffets you from every angle. 风从四面八方刮来。 And when the storm finally moves away,leaving in its place a clear, still, starlit night, 当随后雷雨逐渐消散，寂静、明澈的星夜终于来临时， you can hardly remem
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Have you ever watched a storm approaching on a hot summer's day? 你在炎热的夏天见过一场雷雨来临的情景吗？ It's especially spectacular in the mountains. 这在山区尤其壮观。 At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a so
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Yet with all of these things there must have been a first time. 可是这一切必定有过第一次出现的时候。 Someone must have made the discovery. 这必定是某个人发明的。 Isn't it an amazing thought that, one day, a prehistoric ma
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But now you are going to say:Stop! That's not what we agreed. 但现在你一定会说，停！那不是我们当初同意的。 When did these people live, what were they like, and how did they live? 这些人生活在什么时候，他们长什么样
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On another occasion, but still in Germany in the Neander valley a human skull was found. 在另一个地方，但仍在德国，在尼安德尔山谷，人们发现了一块人的头盖骨。 And this was also immensely interesting because nobody ali
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第一章 从前 All stories begin with Once upon a time. 所有的故事都以从前 开头。 And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time. 那恰好是这个故事所要讲的：从前发生了什么？ Once you we
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Now they were carefully collected and valued twice as highly as before. 现在人们将它们收集起来并加倍珍惜它们。 And to become a government official, you had to know them all. 想成为一名中国政府官员，你必须熟读这些古
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As is usually the case with wars, not only Athens but the whole country was exhausted by the conflict, and the victors were no exception. 正如战争中常会发生的那样，不仅是雅典，整个国家在战斗中耗尽了精力，胜利者也是
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Greece's age of splendor was short-lived. 希腊的辉煌时期很短暂。 The Greeks could do everything but live in peace with one another. 希腊人什么都能，但是他们不能与其他城邦和睦相处。 Above all, it was Athens and Spart
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He thought that everything in life ran more smoothly if people did. 他认为如果人们这样做了什么事情就都好办了。 Almost by itself, as it were, without the need to think too hard about it. 它简直就是自动进行的，用不着许
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Suddenly he realized what he had been seeking all those years. 他突然意识到他在这些年里寻找的是什么。 It was as if an inner light had made everything clear. 这就像一种内心的光亮，使一切清晰起来。 Now, as the 'Enl
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A Roman citizen living abroad always retained his separate status, for he lived according to Roman law. 但是一个罗马公民始终跟一个当地人有很大的区别。他按罗马法行事， Wherever he happened to be in that vast empire, he c
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