And that was only possible because, besides using the sea, the shipping lanes for travel, which was much faster than overland travel, the Romans maintained roads.

之所以能达到这个数字，原因之一是走海路，用海洋航路运输，比陆路快得多，另一个原因就是修路。

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I have to buy them all anyway, so I don't care whether three-fourths of my money goes to debt or one-fourth of the money goes to debt.

反正我都得买下来,所以我不介意投向债务的钱,到底是四分之三还是四分之一

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You're going to have it as one of your listening exercises.

你们得把它当作听力练习曲目之一

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You are saying that's one of the things that would've been better if... And making it permanent. -Right And that's the very good sort of bang for buck, permanent tax change So you both view this actually as a missed opportunity, at best really, right? -Yeah It's the best it can be said for. Alright.

你的意思是，有些事原本可以做得更好,这个是其中之一，对吗。,关键在于任何措施都必须是长期的，-没错,恒定的税率改制，绝对划算,这么说，你们两位都认为,这充其量只是错失良机而已，对吗，-没错,也只能这么说说了，是吧。

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The Newscorp's rising stock price was a sign that Rupert Murdoch had some idea how to make money and The Wall Street Journal was not doing as well, so it got gobbled up.

新闻集团,全球最大的媒体集团之一默多克家族控制其30%的股份,是鲁珀特·默多克有能力赚钱的标志,而《华尔街日报》做得不好,所以它被吞并了

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