这家工厂将成为西方在东方投资的样板。

The factory was to be a showpiece of Western investment in the East.

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在东方，蛇一般都是新生命和多产的象征；因为蛇的蜕皮似乎能使它永远年轻。

Snakes are symbols of renewed life and fertility in the East; because they shed their skins so they seem to be eternally young.

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我们在东方看见他的星，特来拜他。

We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.

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Why? This is not a Greek tradition, but it's very much a tradition in the East for kings to be considered by their people to be gods.

为什么呢？这并不是希腊传统，但在东方，统治者被人民尊为神明,却是一个重要传统。

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Snakes are symbols of renewed life and fertility in the East ; because they shed their skins so they seem to be eternally young; and they're also phallic symbols.

在东方，蛇一般都是新生命或者多产的象征,因为，蛇的蜕皮，似乎能使它永远年轻;,蛇同样也是生殖力的象征。

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The Romans, when they came on the scene, in the East, and they gradually became more and more powerful, they destroyed Corinth in a big battle in 144 BCE.

罗马人在东方登场时，变得愈来愈强大，公元前144年他们在一场大战中摧毁了科林斯。

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