Babur was not much interested in women.
巴布尔对那个女人没什么兴趣。
It was not just the friends that Babur missed.
巴布尔不只是失去了朋友。
To cement his power, Babur needed to see off rivals.
为了巩固他的权力，巴布尔需要赶走对手。
At one party Babur saw a very surprising sight: a woman drinking.
在一次宴会上巴布尔看到了非常令人惊讶的一幕：一个女人喝酒。
Babur stayed in Delhi to consolidate his power, but he hated India.
巴布尔待在德里以巩固他的权力，但他讨厌印度。
Poetry went with another taste Babur developed in Kabul: for wine.
除了诗，巴布尔在喀布尔还养成了另一种嗜好：酒。
Babur was ambitious, and his dominion in Kabul was limited by the Afghans' insubordination.
巴布尔雄心勃勃，他在喀布尔的统治由于阿富汗人的抵抗而受到限制。
Once Babur was so drunk that he was sick and could not remember riding home the night before.
有一次，巴布尔醉得太厉害了，以至于病了，而且不记得前一天晚上曾骑马回家。
So Babur was homeless; most of his followers had left him; treacherous relations had murdered his tutor.
所以，巴布尔就无家可归了；他的大多数追随者已经离开他，一个背信弃义的亲戚甚至谋杀了他的导师。
Babur longed to be a great poet, writing admiringly of the fame of his unfortunate cousin Baysunghur Mirza.
巴布尔渴望成为一名伟大的诗人，他写到他羡慕那个不幸的表弟拜桑格赫•米尔扎（Baysunghur Mirza）的名望。
The only things Babur liked about India were the abundance of gold and silver and the weather after the monsoon.
巴布尔所喜欢的唯一出自印度的东西只是大量的金银和季风过后的天气。
“The Garden of the Eight Paradises”, a recent biography of Babur by Stephen Dale, has done it more than justice;
斯蒂芬•戴尔所著的关于巴布尔的新传记，“八乐园花园”，不只是为了公正；
That was, Babur points out, a (rather 16th-century) joke; eventually they got the man back in the saddle and headed for home.
这是，巴布尔指出，一个(而不是16世纪)的笑话；最终它们杀了那个男子并把它放在马鞍后带回家。
At 13, Babur headed off to capture samarkand-the former imperial capital, a jewel built by craftsmen Timur had kidnapped from raids into India, Persia and Arabia.
13岁时，巴布尔进军撒马尔罕，前帝国的首都，一颗由帖木儿在劫掠印度，波斯和阿拉伯时劫持的工匠们建造的明珠。
Sometimes self-aggrandising, sometimes self-critical, Babur emerges from his autobiography as a real person, in a way no other great leader except Churchill does.
时而自吹自擂，时而自我批评，从他的自传里我们看到了一个真实的巴布尔，这种方式除了丘吉尔没有别的领导人采用过。
Babur stayed in Delhi to consolidate his power, but he hated India. His list of complaints offers a good indication of the things that mattered to a 16th-century emperor.
巴布尔待在德里以巩固他的权力，但他讨厌印度。
In October 1519, for instance, Babur rode out to Istalif with friends: “Its lawns were one sheet of trefoil; its pomegranate trees yellowed to autumn splendour, their fruit full red.”
例如，1519年10月，巴布尔和朋友骑马去Istalif：“草坪是三叶草形的，石榴树镀上了秋天的金黄色，果实全红。”
In October 1519, for instance, Babur rode out to Istalif with friends: "Its lawns were one sheet of trefoil; its pomegranate trees yellowed to autumn splendour, their fruit full red."
例如，1519年10月，巴布尔和朋友骑马去Istalif：“草坪是三叶草形的，石榴树镀上了秋天的金黄色，果实全红。”
In October 1519, for instance, Babur rode out to Istalif with friends: "Its lawns were one sheet of trefoil; its pomegranate trees yellowed to autumn splendour, their fruit full red."
例如，1519年10月，巴布尔和朋友骑马去Istalif：“草坪是三叶草形的，石榴树镀上了秋天的金黄色，果实全红。”
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