Another fact is that we are told that when Alexander the Great went out to conquer the Persian Empire, and as far as he was concerned,to conquer everything he could reach, he carried with him a copy of the Iliad which it is alleged he put under his pillow.

另一个事实是,据说当亚历山大大帝,出征去征服波斯帝国时,对他而言,就是去征服他能达到的一切,他随身带着一本《伊利亚特》,据说放在他的枕头底下

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And the telephone companies in the United State, generally about 200 billion dollars a year carrying long distance telephone conversations and they thought this conversations might be carried for free over the internet was quite shocking to them. Of course free is very low price, and they are not like it to be free.

美国的各电话公司，一般大约有每年2千亿美元,来自长途电话会话，他们认为,这些会话有可能通过互联网免费传输,对他们来说是相当震惊的，当然了,免费是很低的价格了，他们不希望它免费。

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