兰巴达

Soledad A city of northern Colombia, a suburb of Barranquilla.

索莱达：哥伦比亚北部的一座城市，是巴兰基利亚的郊区。

At the end of the month, as I was preparing to leave for Lyon, France, for the annual G-7 conference, which would primarily be devoted to terrorism, nineteen air force personnel were killed and almost three hundred Americans and others were injured when terrorists drove a truck containing a powerful bomb to a security barrier just outside Khobar Towers, a military housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

当月月底，我准备前往法国里昂，参加每年举行的七大工业国会议，这次会议的主要议题是恐怖主义。不久前，恐怖分子驾驶一辆携带着一枚威力巨大的炸弹的卡车，撞上了沙特阿拉伯达兰的霍巴塔军营外面的安全屏障，19名空军人员被炸死，几乎300名美国人和其它国家的人被炸伤。

It was in the sixth year of Nabonidus (549 BC) that Cyrus, the Achaemenid Persian "king of Anshan" in Elam, revolted against his suzerain Astyages,"king of the Manda" or Medes, at Ecbatana.

这是在那波尼德斯（公元前549年）在位的第六年，居鲁士，波斯阿契美尼德王朝在埃兰的&鞍山之王&，对他的领主阿司杜阿该斯，埃克巴塔那的&曼达或米提亚人之王&反感。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。