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Chapter 2 The Greatest Inventors of All Time 第二章 前所未有的最伟大的发明家 Near Heidelberg, in Germany, somebody was once digging a pit when they came across a bone, deep down under the ground. 有一次有人在德国海德堡附近挖
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Have you ever tried standing between two mirrors? You should. 你可曾试着站立在两面镜子之间？你不妨试一试。 You will see a great long line of shiny mirrors, each one smaller than the one before, 你会看见发亮的镜子的一条
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If you have always found history boring, you are going to enjoy this chapter. 如果历史一直让你感到无聊的话，那么你将感到这章很有意思。 At about the same time as Hannibal was in Italy, that is, shortly after 220 BC, an empe
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Carthage was still standing, a fact which many Romans would not accept, in particular a patrician named Cato. 迦太基居然还存在，许多罗马人都不能容忍，特别是有一个名叫加图的执政官。 Cato was a just and honorable man,
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After 14 years in Italy Hannibal finally returned to Africa, where his countrymen needed him. 在意大利征战14年后最后汉尼拔返回了非洲，因为他的同胞们需要他。 The Romans, led by Scipio their general, had reached the gates
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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
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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
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Their meaning is roughly this: in all the world in wind and rain, in plants and animals, in the passage from day to night,它们的内容大致如下：整个世界风和雨，植物和动物，白昼和黑夜的交替，in the movements of the stars
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But wait a minute! you say. If they all spoke different languages, how could using the same script make any difference? 但等一下。你说。如果他们全都说不同的语言，他们怎么用同一种文字区分呢？ Well, Chinese writing is
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Now at the same time as the Buddha was seeking to relieve man's suffering in India,就在释迦牟尼在印度寻找使人类摆脱苦难的时候，as you remember, that was around 500 BC, there was in China another great man who was also trying to
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Boys were beaten just to harden them to pain. 人们打男孩只是为了让他们变得坚强，习惯疼痛。 A harsh upbringing is still called 'Spartan' today, 今天人们仍把这种严格的教育称之为斯巴达式教育， and as you know
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Both wisdom of thought and beauty of form were to be united by the Athenians in a third art: the art of poetry. 在第三种艺术中，即在诗艺中，雅典人把思想的睿智和形式的美统一起来。 And here, too, they invented something
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The kings of the Greek cities clearly learnt a great deal from them. 各希腊城市的国王曾向克里特人学习过这些。 But by 1,200 BC this time of splendor was over. 但是到公元前1200年这一时期的繁华景象消失了。 For it
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For of the God, whose first appearance in the history of the world was to the people of the JewsGod, the Almighty, the One and Only God no image could or might be made. 对上帝，他在世界历史上第一次显现就对犹太民族显现上帝，这
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Chapter 3 The Land by the Nile 第三章 尼罗河畔的国家 Here - as I promised - History begins. 历史--我答应过你--将从这里开始。 With a when and a where. 以一个什么时候和一个哪里， It is 3,100 BC, that is, 5,100 years
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He didn't just put the whole empire in order, he put time in order too. 但是他不仅在整个帝国而且也在时间方面建立秩序。 He put time in order? Whatever does that mean? 这是什么意思？ He reformed the calendar, so that it en
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They would give their all for him. Not just on foreign soil but at home as well. 他们愿意为他竭尽全力，不但在敌国，而且在家乡。 For, in their eyes, a great hero of the battlefield was just what was needed to keep order at home,
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Every rich Roman had several country houses, usually near the sea, with many slaves to run them, 每一个富有的罗马人都有几栋乡村别墅，大多坐落在海边。他们有许多当仆役的奴隶， and fine libraries in which the works
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Among them were some remarkable men, one of whom was the Emperor Trajan. 其中也不乏神奇的人物，如皇帝图拉真， He lived about 100 years after Christ and, long after his death, people were still talking about his justice and his gentl
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If you weren't a Christian, a Jew or a close relative of the emperor, life in the Roman empire could be peaceful and pleasant. 谁不是基督徒，不是犹太人或不是皇帝的近亲，谁就能在当时的罗马帝国过上很安逸很舒适的生
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