What do you think of the big statue in Columbus Circle?

你觉得哥伦布环岛上的那尊雕像怎么样？

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Well, it apparently is not so obvious because in the Americas, before Columbus came-- " pre-Columbian America-- there were no wheeled vehicles anywhere.

好吧，从表面上看这似乎不那么显而易见,因为在美洲大陆，在哥伦布到来之前-,在“前哥伦比亚美洲-,根本没有任何轮式交通工具存在。

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By the time of Columbus maize had already become the staff of life in the New World.

在哥伦布时期,玉米已成为美洲大陆的主食

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In the preface to his largest book, the Discourses on Livy, he compares himself to Christopher Columbus for his discovery of what he calls " "new modes and orders."

在他最大一部著作，《论利瓦伊》的序言中，他将自己和哥伦布相比,因为他发现,其所谓的，“新模式与秩序“

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Sure. I think that Columbus Circle is probably one of the most fashionable places in the city.

当然可以。我觉得哥伦布环岛可能是这座城市里最时尚的地方之一。

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Well, you know how Columbus was. What I know... I moved to New York in 1987,

好的，你知道哥伦布是怎样的。我所知道的是……我在1987年搬到了纽约，

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And in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, that's how we say it.

在1492年，哥伦布在蓝色的海洋中航行，我们就是这样说的。

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He controls no real estate. He's been banished, yet he is clearly attempting to conquer, comparing himself to Columbus, to conquer in large part through the transformation of our understanding of good and evil, of virtue and vice.

没有不动产，且已被流放，但他明显地试图克服，并将自己和哥伦布相比，他想要克服大部份的人,透过转变,我们对善恶,美德与邪恶的了解。

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