Alexander the Great, remember, wanted to set up a one world, a universal empire.

亚历山大大帝想要建立，统一的帝国。

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This universal banking model has proved hard to manage, with the likes of Citigroup and UBS knitting together a vast empire of operating units.

这一包罗万象的银行业模型已经被证明是难以管理的，像花旗和瑞士银行这样的公司织就了一个庞大的业务帝国。

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You really have, therefore, for in some way the first time in history, a dream of making all of his empire basically universal, a dream of a universal vision, for one world, under one kind of culture, one kind of language.

因此某种程度上说，这是历史上第一次出现，梦想建立统一的帝国，同一个世界的愿景，同一种文化，同一种语言。

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