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St. Basil was a wandering holy man who shoplifted every day his daily bread
圣巴西爾是一個周游四方的圣人，每天靠從商店偷面包過活，
and once even dared to rebuke Ivan himself for not paying enough attention during church.
有一次甚至敢辱罵伊凡，因為沒有足夠重視他。
People even said that Ivan had the architect blinded so that he would never again created anything so beautiful!
人們甚至說伊凡把建筑師眼睛弄瞎，這樣就不能再創造這么美的事物了！
To this day, St. Basil's Cathedral is probably the world's most famous and familiar Russian church.
迄今圣巴西爾大教堂都是世界上最有名最為人熟知的俄羅斯教堂。
Tradition also has it that the Russian people gave Ivan the nickname Grozny, meaning the Awesome, after his victory of Kazan.
依照傳統人們給伊凡綽號伊凡格羅斯尼，意思就是了不起的人，這是在戰勝喀山汗國以后。
In 1558, Ivan started the Livonian War, hoping to get Russia a port on the Baltic Sea.
1558年，伊凡發動了利沃尼亞戰爭，希望為俄羅斯在波羅的海搶奪一個港口。
This effort bogged down into a long, bloody draw and the port in question would not be built until the time of Peter the Great.
他的努力最終結果是漫長殘忍的平手，這個懸而未定的港口直到彼得大帝才建了起來。
At some point in the 1550's, Ivan began to morph, if you will, into Ivan the Terrible.
在16世紀50年代時，伊凡開始改變成伊凡雷帝。
In 1553, Ivan was deathly ill. Thinking he might die, he asked the Boyars to swear loyalty to his infant son.
1553年伊凡病入膏肓想到自己可能會死，他讓波雅爾發誓對他還是嬰兒的兒子效忠。
The Boyars refused no doubt recalling what a wonderful little kid Ivan himself had been.
波雅爾毫無疑問拒絕了，想到伊凡還是小孩時是多么厲害。
When Ivan recovered, he convinced himself that the Boyars had wanted him to die and put his cousin on the throne instead of him!
當伊凡身體康復后，他認為波雅爾想要他死，然后讓他的堂弟即位！
