第二次世界大战后，许多日本人放弃了包办婚姻，这是他们急于采用美国征服者们更民主方式的一种举措。

After World War II, many Japanese abandoned the arranged marriage as part of their rush to adopt the more democratic ways of their American conquerors.

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公元前539年，巴比伦的征服者阿契美尼德的国王将波斯语作为他们的本国语言，但是，更实用的阿拉姆语被采用为世界上第一门“国际语言”。

The Achaemenid emperors, vanquishers of the Babylonians in 539BC, spoke Persian as their native language, but pragmatically adopted Aramaic as the world’s first “interlingua”.

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鳄梨，从另一方面来讲，毫无疑问是很下流的——下流到西班牙的征服者把它作为一种强力兴奋剂的名声传遍全世界。

The avocado, on the other hand, is undeniably sensual-so much so that the Spanish conquistadors helped spread its reputation throughout the world as a powerful stimulant.

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