And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

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The reason--unless you can take about eight hours to do it--because, the way you're going to do it is you're going to take a train that goes one hour and fifty-eight minutes to Paris, and then you're going to take another train that zips down here in about four hours to Bordeaux, but you're paying by kilometer.

除非你想坐八个小时的火车,因为,你要走的路是,坐上火车,先花一小时五十八分钟去巴黎,然后以很快的速度用四小时到这儿,波尔多,按公里计费

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