They understood that it is not good for man to think only of his immediate advantage in this world and they drew his attention to the days of the future 他们懂得,人不能只考虑眼前的利益,这是大有害处的。他们将人们关注的

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They were highly unpopular and great hate was also felt for the Hebrews who came to the land of Goshen to find a shelter after their long wandering through the desert 希克索斯人横征暴敛,极不受欢迎。同样不受欢迎的还有希伯来人

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There were street riots. A party of thugs was hired to kill the popular Tribune. Tiberius Gracchus was attacked when he entered the assembly and was beaten to death. Ten years later his brother Gaius tried the experiment of reforming a nation against

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As for Sulla, he became Dictator, which meant sole and supreme ruler of all the Roman possessions. He ruled Rome for four years, and he died quietly in his bed, having spent the last year of his life tenderly raising his cabbages, as was the custom o

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Cicero, a public-spirited lawyer, had discovered the plot, had warned the Senate, and had forced Catiline to flee. But there were other young men with similar ambitions and it was no time for idle talk. 一个颇具公众精神的律师西塞罗察觉了

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He crossed the Rubicon River which separated the province of Cis-alpine Gaul from Italy. Everywhere he was received as the friend of the people. Without difficulty Caesar entered Rome and Pompey fled to Greece Caesar followed him and defeated his fol

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Two thousand years ago a slave was merely a piece of machinery. Nowadays a rich man invests his money in factories. The rich people of Rome (senators, generals and war-profiteers) invested theirs in land and in slaves. The land they bought or took in

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They crouched together in filthy hovels in the suburbs of the large cities. They were apt to get sick and die from terrible epidemics. They were all profoundly discontented. They had fought for their country and this was their reward. They were alway

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Their towers however still stand amidst the ruins of Mesopotamia. 只有他们建造的高塔依然屹立在美索不达米亚的废墟之中。 The Jews saw them when they went into exile in the land of Babylon 犹太人在流浪途中经过巴比伦时

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After many years of suffering they were saved from their miserable fate by a young Jew, called Moses, who for a long time had dwelt in the desert and there had learned to appreciate the simple virtues of his earliest ancestors, who had kept away from

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They in turn were vanquished by the followers of the great desert God, Ashur, who called themselves Assyrians 没过多久,他们被同样信仰沙漠大神阿舒尔的亚述人所征服。亚述人以首都尼尼微为中心, and who made the ci

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Chapter 10 第十章 The Phoenicians 腓尼基人 The Phoenicians who gave us our alphabet 腓尼基人为我们创造了字母 The Phoenicians, who were the neighbours of the Jews, were a Semitic tribe which at a very early age had settled along the

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Nevertheless they have rendered all coming generations one service of the greatest possible value. They gave us our alphabet. 不过,他们给后人留下了一笔极有价值的遗产-一他们创造了字母。 The Phoenicians had been familiar w

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Others had preferred to stay among the hills of western Asia and there they had founded the half-independent communities of the Medes and the Persians, two peoples whose names we have copied from the old Greek history-books. In the seventh century be

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They performed these miracles in little villages that covered less ground than four or five modern city blocks. 令人惊叹的是,他们创造了奇迹的场所,尽管是些相当于现代城市四、五个街区大小的小村庄。 And look, w

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Chapter 15 第十五章 Greek self-government 古希腊的自治制度 The Greeks were the first people to try the difficult experiment of self-government 古希腊人是历史上最早进行自治实验的民族 IN the beginning, all the Greeks had

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The cellars underneath this palace, where the wine and the grain and the olive-oil were stored, had been so vast and had so greatly impressed the first Greek visitors, that they had given rise to the story of the labyrinth, the name which we give to

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The slaves did all the cooking and baking and candlestick making of the entire city. They were the tailors and the carpenters and the jewelers and the school-teachers and the bookkeepers and they tended the store and looked after the factory while th

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For the Greeks, who loved moderation in all things, did not like to treat their slaves after the fashion which afterward was so common in Rome, where a slave had as few rights as an engine in a modern factory and could be thrown to the wild animals u

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He had defeated the Roman army of Scipio on the banks of the Rhone and he had guided his army safely across the mountain passes of theAlps although it was October and the roads were thickly covered with snow and ice. Then he had joined forces with th

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