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For a moment, the luck seemed to turn. Hasdrubal, his brother, had defeated the Roman armies in Spain.
有段時間，局勢似乎有好轉的希望。他的兄弟哈士多路巴在西班牙擊敗了羅馬軍隊，
He had crossed the Alps to come to Hannibal's assistance.
即將越過阿爾卑斯山前來增援漢尼拔。
He sent messengers to the south to tell of his arrival and ask the other army to meet him in the plain of the Tiber.
他派信使南下，告之漢尼拔他的到來，讓漢尼拔派一支軍隊到臺伯河平原接應。
Unfortunately the messengers fell into the hands of the Romans and Hannibal waited in vain for further news
不幸的是，信使落到了羅馬人手里，漢尼拔只能徒勞地等待著兄弟的消息。
until his brother's head, neatly packed in a basket, came rolling into his camp and told him of the fate of the last of the Carthaginian troops.
直到有一天，哈士多路巴的頭顱被精心裝在一只籃子里，滾落到漢尼拔的營帳前，他才知道增援漢尼拔的迦太基軍隊全軍覆沒了。
With Hasdrubal out of the way, young Publius Scipio easily reconquered Spain and four years later the Romans were ready for a final attack upon Carthage.
殲滅哈士多路巴后，羅馬將軍小西皮奧輕而易舉地重新占領了西班牙。四年過去，羅馬人已經準備好對迦太基發(fā)動最后一擊了。
Hannibal was called back. He crossed the African Sea and tried to organise the defences of his home-city.
漢尼拔被緊急召回。他渡過阿非利加海回到故鄉(xiāng)，試圖組織迦太基城的防御。
In the year 202 at the battle of Zama, the Carthaginians were defeated. Hannibal fled to Tyre.
在公元前202年扎馬一役，迦太基軍隊以失敗告終，漢尼拔逃到提爾，
From there he went to Asia Minor to stir up the Syrians and the Macedonians against Rome.
再轉道前往小亞細亞，盡力游說敘利亞人和馬其頓人對抗羅馬。
He accomplished very little but his activities among these Asiatic powers gave the Romans an excuse to carry their warfare into the territory of the east and annex the greater part of the Aegean world.
他在這些亞洲國家中的煽動所獲甚少，卻給羅馬人制造了一個將戰(zhàn)火引向東方和愛琴海世界的借口。
Driven from one city to another, a fugitive without a home, Hannibal at last knew that the end of his ambitious dream had come.
漢尼拔淪為了一名失去家園的逃亡者，被迫從一座城市流亡到另一座城市。心力交 瘁和黯淡的前途深深打擊著他。他終于明白，自己雄心勃勃的夢想已到盡頭。
His beloved city of Carthage had been ruined by the war. She had been forced to sign a terrible peace.
他熱愛的祖國迦太基輸?shù)袅藨?zhàn)爭，被迫以屈辱的代價換回和平。
