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They're the first Romans to set foot In the Chinese capital, Luoyang.

他们是在中国的首都洛阳落脚的 首批罗马人

They've entered another world.Luoyang, China.

他们进入了另一个世界 在中国洛阳

Roman merchants 5,000 miles from Rome.

罗马商人来到了离家五千英里外的地方

They've come in search of silk.

开始研究丝绸

The Romans were obsessed with Chinese silk.

罗马人迷恋上了中国的丝绸

And they would cross oceans and cross lands in pursuit of these exotic foreign goods.

他们愿意翻山越岭远跨重洋 前来寻找这些奇异的外国商品

It's not what they needed,but they were going after what they wanted.

那不是他们生活的必需 却是其心之所向

Romans spend the equivalent of $2.2 billion a year

罗马每年约耗费等同于如今的22亿美元

Importing luxuries like silk From Niddlemen in India and central Asia.

用于从印度和中亚的商人手里 进口丝绸等奢侈品

But they don't know where silk comes from or how it's made.

但他们不知道丝绸的产地或制作工序

They think it grows on trees.

他们以为丝绸是长在树上的

Silk manufacturing is a state secret in China.

丝绸手工制造是中国的一个国家机密

No Chinese weaver is to share that knowledge with a foreigner.

没有哪个纺织者会告诉外国人其制造流程

China knows the value of its silk as an export commodity.

中国知道丝绸作为出口商品的价值

It's a secret China has guarded for 3,000 years.

这是中国保守了三千年的秘密

重点讲解

1、equivalent

等同物;等值物；对应物

The equivalent of two tablespoons of polyunsaturated oils is ample each day.

每天相当于两大汤匙多重不饱和油的量就足够了。

Even the cheapest car costs the equivalent of 70 years' salary for a government worker.

即使是最便宜的汽车，价格也相当于一个公务员70年的薪水。

相等物;对应物；对应者

the civil administrator of the West Bank and his equivalent in Gaza.

约旦河西岸的民政官和加沙的同职官员

the Red Cross emblem, and its equivalent in Muslim countries, the Red Crescent.

红十字及其在伊斯兰国家的对应标志——红月牙

（强调效果的强烈或严重）相当于…的事情

His party has just suffered the equivalent of a near-fatal heart attack.

他所在的政党刚刚经历了一次类似心脏病突发般几近致命的打击。

2、manufacture

（通常指大量）制造，生产

They manufacture the class of plastics known as thermoplastic materials.

他们生产这类被称为热塑材料的塑料制品。

The first three models are being manufactured at the factory in Ashton-under-Lyne.

最初的3种型号在阿什顿安德莱恩的工厂生产。

虚构;捏造

According to the prosecution, the officers manufactured an elaborate story.

根据控方意见，官员们精心编造了事情经过。

He said the allegations were manufactured on the flimsiest evidence.

他说这些指控都是凭空捏造的。