Let us look at an idiom: kill two birds with double-edged sword.
我们再看一个成语：一举两得/一箭双雕。
Mr Hanif's hero is a trainee air-force officer, Ali Shigri, who is plotting to kill Zia with a poisoned sword at a national-day parade.
哈尼夫小说的主人公是一位新任的空军长官阿里•希格力，他正筹划着在一次国庆日用一把毒剑杀死吉阿将军。
The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.
因为以色列人背弃了你的约，毁坏了你的坛，用刀杀了你的先知，只剩下我一个人，他们还要寻索我的命。
Some little things become big: a tooth would beat a piece of rock, a Nile crocodile killed a mouse, with a handle of the sword would kill a whale.
有些小事往往变成大事：一颗牙齿会战胜一块岩石，一只尼罗河的老鼠会杀掉一条鳄鱼，一把带柄的剑会杀掉一条鲸鱼。
Did the Lord bring us out here to kill our wives and children with the sword?
难道神把我们领到这里，使我们，我们的妻子和孩子倒在刀下吗？
Well protected in their plate armour, and armed with a lance and sword, they pack a powerful charge on the battlefield, while being difficult to kill.
他们身穿板甲，装备骑枪和长剑，冲锋威力强大，生命力顽强。
If he wants to kill Alexander, he will pay dearly for it, so he designed a plot: he told Alexander, how Gram is great. "That is the sword of King Arthur, and with black fairy treasures, purple gem."
如果他要除掉亚力，也会为之付出惨痛的代价，于是他设计了一场阴谋：他告诉亚力，格拉墨有多强大，“那是亚瑟王的圣剑，并且镶嵌了黑精灵的宝物，紫色宝石。”
If he wants to kill Alexander, he will pay dearly for it, so he designed a plot: he told Alexander, how Gram is great. "That is the sword of King Arthur, and with black fairy treasures, purple gem."
如果他要除掉亚力，也会为之付出惨痛的代价，于是他设计了一场阴谋：他告诉亚力，格拉墨有多强大，“那是亚瑟王的圣剑，并且镶嵌了黑精灵的宝物，紫色宝石。”
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