The concierge at the Cairo Marriott had laughed when we told him we were considering such a trip, and offered to book us a room on one of the Nile's many cruise ships.

听说我们打算做一次这样的旅行，开罗马里奥特酒店的服务员哈哈大笑，并主动表示可以为我们在一艘尼罗河游船上预订房间。

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Some scholars have pointed out that in Book II of the Iliad in the section that we call, "The Catalog of Ships," The poet lays out just exactly how many warships came to Troy fromGreece, and just exactly how many came from each town.

有学者指出在《伊利亚特》第二卷,《船舶名录》这一章节中,诗人准确地列出了从特洛伊出发到希腊的,战舰的数量,而每个城镇又各有多少

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The glut of new container ships is ending, he notes: the current order book is only 24% of the existing fleet, down from 60% in 2008.

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