如果你生于古代，命运就已被决定，你会种田或打扫皇室厕所直至老死。

In the olden days you were born into it, all decisions made, and you farmed until you died, or cleaned the royal toilets.

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然后，在1986年，卡塔尔皇室年轻的王子哈桑.阿勒萨尼买下了第一幅画。 这幅画是约瑟夫.艾哈迈德—出生于多哈，在开罗和加利福尼亚学习--的作品，画面是一个倒立的金字塔。

Then in 1986, a young member of the Qatar royal family bought his first picture, an upside-down pyramid by Yousef Ahmad, a Doha-born painter trained in Cairo and California.

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这位出生于意大利的模特兼歌手着灰装时魅力逼人，穿上紫衣则显得美丽迷人，而一旦晚礼服上身，更显其婀娜之身姿。无论她遇到的是满脸阴沉的政客，还是年已花甲的皇室成员，她都会竭力展开其魅力攻势。

Glamorous in grey, pretty in purple, sleek in her evening gown, the Italian model-cum-singer managed to charm equally the dour politicians and the ageing royals whom she met.

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