The idea that came to him, his great Enlightenment, the solution to human suffering, was this: 他参透到的伟大的知觉,让人类摆脱苦难的思想,是这样的: if we want to avoid suffering, we must start with ourselves, because all

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I can already hear you saying: That's all very well, but people can't help wanting things! The Buddha thought otherwise. 我已经听到你说的:说得不错。但是人们对自己的欲望是无能为力的呀。 释迦牟尼不这样认为。 H

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In time, most of the continent was subdued by the descendants of these invaders, 当时,该大陆的大部分被这些侵略者的后裔征服, who, like the Spartans, maintained a distance between themselves and the peoples they had conquered. 他

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Although we know almost nothing about the people who built Mohenjo Daro, 尽管我们几乎一点不知道什么人建造了摩亨佐.达罗, we do know that different people arrived much later, and that they are ancestors of the people who inhabit

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All we have are little paintings on pottery on vases and urns. 我们只见到陶制器皿上、花瓶上和坛子上的小型画像。 Their loveliness tells us what we have lost. 这些画像如此之美以至我们能够想象得出来我们丧失了

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When you look at the works of Greek artists, and see how fresh and simple and beautiful they are, 看希腊艺术家的作品时,你会发现它们是多么清新、简单和美好, it is as if their creators were seeing the world for the first t

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These laws were so strict that people still speak of Draconian severity. 这些法律十分严厉以致人们今天还在谈论德拉古的严厉。 But the people of Athens, who had roamed the seas in their ships, and had heard and seen so many diff

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He died soon after, leaving his son and successor, Xerxes, to take revenge on Greece once and for all. 不久他便死去,把向希腊彻底复仇的任务一下子交给了他的继承人薛西斯。 Xerxes, a hard, ambitious man, needed no urging

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There they subdued the inhabitants, and set them to work in the fields. 他们在那里征服了从前的居民,并让他们在田地劳作。 They themselves founded a city where they lived, and called it Sparta. 他们自己建造了一个名叫斯

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How do you do it? 这件事你怎么做? Why, every schoolchild knows the answer, You spell out the words. 为什么,每个小学生都知道答案,你拼写出单词。 Yes, all right, but what exactly do you mean? 对,但你到底是什么意思

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From now on, things were constantly changing. 自此一切都一再起变化, And this is why, nowadays, when we find even a fragment of pottery in Greece, or anywhere else in Europe, 这就是为什么当我们现在在希腊或欧洲的其它地方

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To be nearer to their stars, and also to see them better in a misty land, 为了离他们的星星近一点,也为了在这个多雾的地方看星星看得更清楚些, the Babylonians, and the Sumerians before them, erected strange buildings wi

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One such pharaoh was King Cheops, who lived in about 2,500 BC. 就有这样一位名叫齐阿普斯的法老,他生活在于公元前2500年。 He summoned all his subjects to help construct his tomb. 他就曾下令让他所有的臣仆建造他的坟

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Would you like to know how to write using hieroglyphs? 你想知道如何用象形文字书写吗? In fact, learning this sort of writing must have been incredibly hard, as it's more like constructing a picture puzzle. 事实上,这种书写确实不

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In the Egyptian religion, certain animals were sacred: cats, for example. 在埃及的宗教中,有些动物也是神圣的,譬如猫。 Other gods were represented in animal form. 人们把某些神描绘为动物的形态。 The creature we kno

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In the end, perhaps 6,000 years ago, that is, 4,000 BC, they found a new and more convenient way of making tools: they discovered metals. 最后,约6000年以前,即公元前4000年,他们获得了一种新的更方便的制造工具的方法:他

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Confusion and misery reigned in the years after AD 200. 这是在200年后时期里的一场可怕的大混乱和一场可怕的大灾难。 In the Roman empire there was almost no one to keep order but slaves or foreign troops who couldn't understan

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Although the Gauls continued to fight desperately, for years on end, he attacked them repeatedly, and everywhere he went he left troops in control behind him. 虽然高卢人连续数年进行拼死抵抗,他还是一再战胜他们,他到处都留

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They were treated as goods, bought and sold like cattle. 人们像经营商品那样经营他们,像买卖公牛或山羊那样买卖他们。 Slave owners could do what they liked with their slaves even kill them. 谁买了一个奴隶,谁便是这

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War was their favorite pastime. 作战是他们得心应手的事。 After each victory they returned in triumph to Rome, led by their generals, with all their captives and their loot. 如果他们又一次打了胜仗,他们便在其统帅率领下,

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