The gold was rapidly drained from the Empire  and melted down for storage in Xerxes palace.

黄金迅速从帝国流出，熔化后储存在薛西宫殿中。

Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

王后瓦实提在亚哈随鲁王宫内，也为妇女设摆筵席。

They fall by the hundreds. We send the severed bodies and the fragile hearts back to Xerxes' feet.

他们成千上下。我们把残破肢体和脆弱心送回到薛西脚下。

Xerxes plan was simple: march into Greece through the north, and outflank any Greek defenders by landing his navy behind them along the Greek coast.

薛西计划很简单：从北方进军希腊，并通过在希腊海岸登陆他海军在他们身后包抄任何希腊防者。

The Persians were defeated and Xerxes fled, never to return.

战败，薛西逃跑，再也没有回来。

The famed Battle of Thermopylae took place as Spartans and other Greek soldiers blocked Xerxes' advance.

著名温泉关战役发生在巴达人和其他希腊士兵阻止薛西前进时。

What hope had the Greeks in the face of such a host? This time Xerxes himself took command.

简直看不出，这支大军一到，希腊人还会有什么生路。这一回薛西亲征。

Xerxes, who must have heard from his spies that the allies were set on leaving, fell for it.

薛西一定从他间谍那里得知雅典同盟者正准备离开。

And then, in 480 BCE, Xerxes took his Persians across the Hellespont and moved south, towards Sparta, gaining allies.

然后，在公元前 480 年，薛西带领他人穿过赫勒蓬特河，向南移动，前往巴达，获得盟友。

But the battle was ultimately a loss after a Greek traitor showed Xerxes how to flank Leonidas' forces.

但在一位希腊叛徒向薛西展示如何从侧面夹击列奥尼达军队后，这场战斗最终以失败告终。

Ten years later, the Persians returned, planning to conquer the whole of Greece under the leadership of Darius's son, Xerxes.

十年后，人重返，计划征服整个希腊，统帅为达利儿子薛西。

Remembering well the lessons at Marathon, Xerxes took his time to build a sizable force.

薛西清楚地记得马拉松教训， 他花时间建立了一支相当大部队。

If you but lay down your arms and kneel to holy Xerxes.

只要你放下武器，向神圣薛西王下跪。

You are wrong. Xerxes brought it forth and before that, his father, Darius, at Marathon.

你错了，是薛西挑头，在此之前还有他父亲大流士挑起马拉松之战。

A hunchback traitor has led Xerxes' Immortals to the hidden goat path behind us.

一个驼背叛徒，带薛西不死军从牧羊古道包抄到我们后面。

King Xerxes is displeased with his generals. He disciplines them.

薛西王不满他将军们，他们被处以军法。

Infuriated by the rejection, Xerxes ordered his troops forward into battle.

被拒绝激怒了， 薛西命令他军队向前冲锋陷阵。

Another dilemma: Xerxes faced  a lack of support from Babylon.

另一个困境：薛西缺乏巴比伦支持。

Whom will Xerxes dare to send next? Whom? ! There's nothing that can stop us now.

薛西还敢再派谁来？没人能阻止我们！

Into that narrow corridor we march where Xerxes' numbers count for nothing.

我们进军到那隘口，在那里薛西大军派不上用场。