学习一门外语需要毕生的努力（学习一门外语需要毕生的努力）

为了研究古罗马，以下是这位剑桥教授所做的事：

I have spent a good deal of the past fifty years of my life with these first millennium Romans’ I have learnt their languages as well as l can. I have read a good deal of the literature they have left us (no one has read it all), and I have studied some of the hundreds of thousands of books and papers written over the centuries about them.

我过去的50年都在尽我所能学习罗马第一个千年的语言，我还看了他们留给我们的大量的文学作品（这些作品没人全部看过），而且我也研究了成千上万本关于罗马几个世纪的书籍和文献。

I have also been one of those 5 million people who each year queue to step inside the Colosseum. I have let my children be photographed there, for a fee, with the chancers who ply their trade dressed up as gladiators. l have bought them plastic gladiator helmets, and, turning a blind eye to the cruelties of the modern world, I have reassured them that we do not do anything as cruel as that now.

我曾经也是每年五百万排队去斗兽场参观的队伍中的一员；付费给打扮成格斗士的人，让孩子们有机会跟他们拍照留念；我也给他们买塑料的格斗士头盔，并且对现代世界的残酷故意视而不见；同时还安慰他们：我们现在做的任何事都没有那个时代残忍。

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