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Theodoric captured Odoacer, but he promised to spare his life. 狄奥多里克俘获了日耳曼统帅奥多亚塞。 Instead, he invited him to a banquet and stabbed him to death. 狄奥多里克虽然允诺免他一死，但是后来却在一个宴会
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His hordes burnt and destroyed everything in their path. 因为他的部落烧毁、蹂躏一切。 And yet in spite of all the gold and silver and treasures the Huns looted, 但是尽管匈奴人掠夺了那么多的金银财宝， and in spite of a
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When the emperor refused, Attila set out to punish him with his mighty army, and take by force what had been denied him. 当皇帝拒绝时，阿提拉便率领他的大军出发，去惩罚这位皇帝并夺取他拒不给予的东西。 The two sid
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Now, try to imagine 1,000 million years! 现在试着想象10亿年（有多长）！ At that time there were no large animals, just creatures like snails and worms. 当时还没有巨型动物，只有蜗牛和虫这样的生物。 And before then t
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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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But people didn't yet know how to build houses. 但是人们当时还不知道如何建造房屋。 Not a pleasant thought, since at that time it was often intensely cold at certain periods far colder than today. 一想到这点令人很不愉快，因
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And before that? Before that, not even the sun, our good old sun, was there. 那么在那以前呢？在那以前，甚至太阳，我们可爱又古老的太阳也不存在。 Only weird and amazing giant stars and smaller heavenly bodies, whirling
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It's like a bottomless well. Does all this looking down make you dizzy? 它就像一个无底的深井。从上往下看，你会头晕目眩吗？ It does me. So let's light a scrap of paper, and drop it down into that well. 我会的。那么让我们
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Carthage was the richest and mightiest city for miles around and the Romans referred to its Phoenician inhabitants as Punics. 迦太基是远近一带最富有、最强大的城市，罗马将它的腓尼基居民称为布匿人。 Its ships went far
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It took all the money they had, but with their brand new fleet they defeated the Carthaginians, who were soon forced to cede Sicily to the Romans. 他们花费了他们的全部金钱造了这些船，但他们用这支崭新组建的船队战胜了迦
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He was that rare thing: a man who made war like a chess-player, carefully considering each move before he made it. 他是个不寻常的人：他是一个在战争中像一个棋手在下每一步棋前都深思熟虑的人。 But above all he was a
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They could practice their own religion and speak their own language, and in many ways they benefited from all the good things the Romans brought, such as roads. 他们可以保持自己的宗教并讲自己的语言。是的，罗马人也带给他们各
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There are many old and wonderful stories telling of the love Romans had for their native land and of their faithfulness to its laws. 有许多古老的、美好的故事讲述罗马人的这种对家乡的热爱和他们对法律的忠诚。 Stories
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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
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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
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But these were not at all like those of the Greeks, where leading citizens took part in sporting contests and sang hymns in honor of the Father of the Gods. 这当然不是希腊人那样的由贵族公民自己为纪念主神而进行的体育活动和
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Among the frontier guards any number of gods were worshipped the Persian sun god Mithras, for example, and not long after, the unique and invisible god of the Christians. 此外这些驻守边境的军队也崇拜基督徒的惟一的看不见的神。
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Beyond the distant frontiers all aroundwere fierce, barbarian tribes waiting to raid and pillage the rich provinces. 因为在遥远的边境的那一边到处都有未开化的、好战的名族，他们很想侵入各富庶的行省，掠夺那里的
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The Christians had often said that this world must end so that a better, purer world might take its place. 基督徒们曾常常说，这个世界必须毁灭，好让一个更好的、更纯洁的世界诞生。 Of course, you and I know that they m
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One day a terrible fire broke out in Rome which, burning day and night, consumed house after house, district after district, 当时在罗马发生了一场大火，它烧了几天几夜，烧毁了一排排房屋、一个个街区， and made hundred
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