Stimson says he worries that a civilian trial could become a circus if Mohammed tries to turn it into a propaganda event for al-Qaida.

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And the hippodrome, which becomes the circus in Latin-- that's just the Latin translation of hippodrome, because as you'll see, Romans started adopting a lot of these, which were originally Greek institutions, into their society also.

后来赛马场到了拉丁语里变成了马戏表演场-,那是拉丁语对赛马场的翻译，你们以后会学到，罗马人采纳了很多，原本希腊式的制度，融入了他们的社会。

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