The women's marathon opens the final day of competition, but that 42.2 kilometer race, which begins and ends at the historic Brandenburg Gate, is only the beginnaing.

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But after the marathon, he's done too much.

跑完马拉松以后，他已经精疲力尽了。

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That's where The Boston Marathon starts.

这就是波士顿马拉松赛的起点

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In the famous battle of Marathon, which I will tell you about when we get there, one of its features is that because the Greeks were numerically badly inferior to the Persians, they had this problem of covering the line.

比如在著名的马拉松战役,迟些我们会讲到,马拉松战役中,希腊军队,在人数上远不敌波斯军队,这为布阵造成很大的困难

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