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This week I'm looking at the great powers of Europe and Asia around two thousand years ago, and the leaders whose legacies are still with us in the world today.
約兩千年前的幾個(gè)歐亞強(qiáng)國(guó)，其文化遺產(chǎn)影響人類至今。
What is the right way for a leader to rule?
他們確立了有關(guān)如何正確治理國(guó)家，
How should rulers construct their image and project their power?
如何樹立君主形象，以及如何運(yùn)用自身權(quán)力的基本政治概念。
How does a ruler actually change the way the people think?
同時(shí)也讓我們了解統(tǒng)治者如何改變?nèi)嗣竦乃季S。
Today's leader, Ashoka the Great, took on a vast empire and through the strength of his ideas began a tradition which leads directly to the ideals of Gandhi, and still flourishes today-a tradition of pluralistic, humane, non-violent statecraft.
印度的阿育王接掌了一個(gè)龐大的帝國(guó)，而其思想開啟了一個(gè)悠久的傳統(tǒng)，直接影響了圣雄甘地，并活躍至今。這是一種多元并存、仁慈與非暴力的治國(guó)方針。
And it's those ideas that are carried, literally, by the object for this programme.
本節(jié)將要介紹的文物便包含了這些思想。
I'm with the object now-it's a fragment of stone, sandstone to be exact, and it's about the size of a large curved brick-not much to look at all, but it opens up the story of one of the great figures of world history.
這是一塊砂巖碎片，大小如同大型的曲面磚，外表雖不起眼，卻能讓我們了解世界史上的一位偉人。
On the stone are two lines of text, inscribed in round spindly-looking letters-appropriately first described as "pin-man script"-and these two lines are the remains of a much larger, longer text that was originally carved on a great circular column, about 30 feet high (9m) and 3 feet (1m) in diameter.
石頭上刻著兩行纖細(xì)的圓形文字，曾被稱為“大頭針文”。它們是兩行原本刻在大型圓柱上的更長(zhǎng)的文字的片段，原柱高達(dá)九米，直徑約一米。
