能够战胜自己的人比有势力的人更伟大。

He who can conquer himself is greater than the mighty.

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他依然是这一地区最有势力的人之一。

He remained one of the most powerful people in the area.

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他是这个镇上有势力的人物。

He is a man of influence in the town.

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The other scary thing for the Dutch is, of course, the big guy down south.

另一个令荷兰人害怕的情形就是,南部势力的狼子野心

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And this is very important, because the Romans, as their power grew in the East, they simply moved increasingly into the eastern Mediterranean and they adopted the whole Greek system, the Greek world, and they didn't even try to make it non-Greek.

这点非常重要，因为随着罗马人的势力在东方日渐壮大，他们不断朝地中海东部推进,并采取了全套希腊系统，希腊世界，甚至没有作出任何非希腊式的改变。

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How the mighty have fallen.

有势力的人是如何没落的。

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