A Roman citizen living abroad always retained his separate status, for he lived according to Roman law. 但是一个罗马公民始终跟一个当地人有很大的区别。他按罗马法行事， Wherever he happened to be in that vast empire, he c...
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...
It would never have occurred to the Romans to do what Alexander the Great had done. 罗马人从未有过类似于亚历山大大帝那样的想法。 They had no wish to turn the lands they conquered into a single, vast empire in which everyone was...
Now they were carefully collected and valued twice as highly as before. 现在人们将它们收集起来并加倍珍惜它们。 And to become a government official, you had to know them all. 想成为一名中国政府官员，你必须熟读这些古...
Shih Huang-ti built it to protect China's many hardworking and peaceable peasants and townspeople from the wild tribes of the steppes, 秦始皇修建它是为了保护中国众多勤劳、爱好和平的农民和民众，使其免遭草原上野蛮部...
His province was called Ch'in, from which his family took its name, and it is likely that the whole country now known as China was named after him. 他所统治的国家叫秦国，他的家族也这样取名，大概中国整个国家今天还都是按...
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...
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,...
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...
Ignoring his advice, they attacked Hannibal at a place called Cannae. 他们不听他的建议，在一个叫坎尼的地方攻打汉尼拔。 There they were decisively beaten: 40,000 dead on the Roman side. 罗马人遭到了毁灭性的打击：死了...
