介绍: City Tempo又与大家见面了,本期我们将透过电波带着大家来到古城庞贝。庞贝的历史可以追溯到公元前600年,那时的庞贝还只是海湾畔的一个小集市,主要从事农业和渔业的生产,直到公

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The principal conquests of the Romans were achieved under the republic; and the emperors, for the most part, were satisfied with preserving those dominions which had been acquired by the policy of the senate, the active emulations of the consuls, and

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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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Constantine no longer ruled the empire from Rome. 君士坦丁不再坐镇罗马进行统治。 In those days the chief threat came from the east, the Persians having once again become powerful. 当时帝国在东方受到最大的威胁,受到波斯

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He marched at the head of not less than four different victory-parades, having won four different campaigns. 在其辉煌的一生中,恺撒赢得了四次重大战争,四次举行凯旋入城仪式,每次都威风八面地走在游行队伍的最

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Chapter 24 第二十四章 The roman empire 罗马帝国的故事 How the republic of Rome after centuries of unrest and revolution become an empire 罗马共和国历经数世纪的动乱和革命,终于变成了罗马帝国 When the Roman armies

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It had created a large bureaucracy-petty officials who were underpaid and who were forced to take graft in order to buy bread and clothing for their families. Worst of all, it had accustomed people to violence, to blood-shed, to a barbarous pleasure

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Octavian remained in Rome, but Antony went to Egypt to be near Cleopatra with whom he too had fallen in love, as seems to have been the habit of Roman generals. 渥大维留在罗马,而安东尼去了埃及。似乎罗马将军都有爱江 山更爱

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If the truth be told, the average citizen was sick and tired of anarchy and disorder. He did not care who ruled him pro vided the new master gave him a chance to live quietly and without the noise of eternal street riots. Octavian assured his subject

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This made him the most celebrated man in Rome. 这样,他就是罗马最受欢迎的人。 But in the meantime, Sulla had fought on in Africa, and he too had returned triumphant. 但是这时苏拉也在非洲继续作战并且同样成了凯旋的统

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All the little citystates once more began to quarrel with each other as they had done in the good old days. 所有的希腊城邦再度陷人无休止的相互争吵中,一如它们在光荣的旧时代的所为。 The Romans, who had little unders

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Chapter 23 第23章 The rise of 罗马帝国的兴起 Rome How Rome happened 罗马帝国是如何形成的 The Roman Empire was an accident. No one planned it. 罗马帝国的产生纯属偶然。没有人策划它, It happened.No famous general o

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In the year 203 B.C. Scipio had crossed the African Sea and had carried the war into Africa. 公元前203年,西皮奥率军渡过阿非利加海,将战火烧到非洲。 Carthage had called Hannibal back. Badly supported by his mercenaries, Hann

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Chapter 26 The fall of Rome The Twilight of Rome 第二十六章 罗马帝国的衰亡 罗马帝国的黄昏 The text-books of ancient History give the date 476 as the year in which Rome fell, because in that year the last emperor was driven off his

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The people of the early Middle Ages never saw a textbook of Roman history. 中世纪的人们从未读过任何一本有关罗马历史的教科书。 They were ignorant of many things which every school-boy today knows before he has entered the thir

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But the underlying causes of the decay of the State, of which I have told you in a former chapter, had not been removed and reform therefore was impossible. 不过正如我在上一章讲过的,罗马帝国的根基已经锈蚀,造成它衰败的深

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But they were not willing to engage in warfare for the benefit of an ambitious emperor who aspired to glory by way of a foreign campaign in the land of the Parthians or the Numidians or the Scots. 但他们不愿为罗马帝国打仗,因为那不过是

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This made Rome very uncomfortable as an Imperial residence. 这样的事情常常发生,使得作为帝国首都的罗马变成了一个令人不快的居所。 Constantine(who ruled from 323 to 337) looked for a new capital. 康士坦丁皇帝(公

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In the year 402 the Emperor fled to Ravenna, which was a sea-port and strongly fortified, 公元402年,西罗马皇帝逃往拉维纳。 and there, in the year 475, Odoacer, commander of a regiment of the German mercenaries, 这里是一座海港,城

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The old bridges were gone and commerce had come to a standstill. 帝国的大道因年旧失修而塌陷,桥梁断绝,早已不堪使用。 Civilisation-the product of thousands of years of patient labor on the part of Egyptians and Babylonians a

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