他在关于1995年波斯尼亚和谈的回忆录的开头就引用了伊希梅尔的自白，“结束战争”：“对我来说，我对遥远的事物有一种不断的渴望，这一直使我备受折磨。”

He cited Ishmael's confession near the beginning of his memoir of the 1995 Bosnian peace talks, "to End a War" : "as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote."

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我叫尼希米，是来自耶路撒冷的一个俘虏，也就是很多年被巴比伦俘获后来又落到玛代人和波斯人手里的众多犹太人中的一个。

I am Nehemiah, a captive from Jerusalem. Our people, the Jews were captured by the Babylonians many years before and soon the Persians and Medes took over.

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美国邮政服务有条非正式的信条(如上)。这一信条的出处要回溯到希罗·多德，他对波斯国王忠实可靠的信使大为赞赏。

The us Postal Service has an unofficial creed (above) that harks back to Herodotus, who was admiring the Persian empire's stalwart messengers.

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