长征记 (ed. 3)
- 语言:
- 英语
- 译者:
- Frances Younghusband
- 状态:
- 完整作品
- 作者归属:
- Adaptation by C. Witt / Frances Younghusband
- 文本状况:
- 未检测到扫描噪点 (对全文的自动评估，未经人工核对)
- 篇幅:
- 约 47,400 词 · 225 个段落
引用本作品
- APA色诺芬. (n.d.). The retreat of the ten thousand [长征记 (ed. 3)] (Frances Younghusband, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/zh/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand
- MLA色诺芬. The retreat of the ten thousand [长征记 (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/zh/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
- Chicago色诺芬. The retreat of the ten thousand [长征记 (ed. 3)]. Translated by Frances Younghusband. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/zh/works/xenophon/the-retreat-of-the-ten-thousand.
本条目引用所收录的版本。SigPhi 是数字复制平台。已知的年份、出版者和译者均列出；“n.d.”表示年份未知。
内容简介
一万人从波斯腹地的撤退，《长征记》的另一个英译本。
背景与流传
与《长征记》是同一部作品，只是换了一套词。 注意：目录中的《长征记》不止一个版本——全本、前四卷，还有另一个英译本，另外还有一卷现代希腊文。引用时请说明用的是哪一版，最好再注明卷和章。
这是编辑性背景，不是可引用的来源：与作品本身的段落不同，这些说明无法在语料库中核对。
prompt and barbarous punishment. Not only criminals, but even persons merely suspected of having committed crimes, were put to death in the most horrible manner. Some were crushed between stones, others were torn limb from limb, and others, again, suffered painful imprisonment in troughs. For merely trifling offences they were cruelly mutilated. There is a Persian proverb that ‘the King has many eyes and ears.’ In every state the king must have means of knowing through his trusted officers, who see and hear for him, what is going on among the people. But in Persia the arrangements for obtaining information of this kind were reduced to a science. Satraps and people alike were constantly watched by a body of spies, and so secretly was this done that it was not even known who were the officers employed. A favourite device of the spies was to feign a friendship for the person whose actions they wished to report, and a man might be arrested and executed without once suspecting the false friend who had given information of his real or imaginary guilt. Sometimes the spy would denounce an innocent man for no other reason than to bring himself into notice as active in the King’s service. Another plan was to take note of every one who passed along the roads which led from the various Residences of the Great King to the other principal towns of the empire. These roads were commanded by fortresses where officers were stationed whose duty it was to enquire of every wayfarer whither he was going and on what errand, and any messenger carrying a letter was obliged to give it up for inspection. This was intended to check the free passage of suspicious persons, and to prevent the sending of letters not approved by the government; but it must often have been easy to find means of evading the King’s officers.…