Whom will Xerxes dare to send next?

薛西斯还敢派谁来？

Xerxes watched as his warriors were defeated.

泽克西斯眼睁睁的看着他的战士溃败…

In the spring of 480 Xerxes set out from Sardis.

在公元前480年春，薜西斯从萨迪斯出发。

A token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes.

作为斯巴达臣服雨薛西斯意志的象征。

But you bring only this handful of soldiers against Xerxes?

你就带这么少士兵对抗敌军？

Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes he faces free men here.

现在就滚，告诉薛西斯，他在这面对的是自由之人。

Xerxes conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon.

一切薛西斯眼神停留过的事物都被他征服了。

Xerxes sent a message ordering the Greeks to deliver their arms.

薜西斯发放信息，命令希腊人交出武器。

In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece.

公元前480年，波斯王薛西斯率数十万铁骑攻向希腊。

Xerxes, watching the battle from a throne on the shore, could hardly believe his eyes.

薛西斯一世坐在岸上的王座里一直观望这场战斗，他几乎不能相信自己所看到的。

Proclaims Xerxes the King: By the favor of Ahuramazda I built this Gateway of All Nations.

宣布薛西斯国王：通过有利于Ahuramazda 我建立这个网关的所有国家。

In 481 b. c. Xerxes built a bridge of boats here to cross the Hellespont and invade Greece.

公元前481年舍斯在此建造了跨哈利斯邦的浮桥并入侵希腊。

Reaching the harbour, Xerxes ordered that a golden crown be presented to the captain for saving his life.

薛西斯回到港口之后， 下令赐船长金王冠一顶， 答谢他救命之恩；

Proclaims Xerxes the King: may Ahuramazda protect me from harm, and this land, and whatever was built by me as well as what has been built by may father.

宣布薛西斯国王：5月Ahuramazda保护我免受伤害，这片土地上，无论是由我以及已经建立了可能的父亲。

There were no rhinoceroses or elephants on the real battlefield, for example, and King Xerxes was more dignified and remote than his depiction in the movie.

例如，在真实的战场上既没有犀牛也没有战象，薛西斯王也远非影片描写的那样庄重威严；

This may be true, but the anecdote looks suspiciously like Herodotus' s story of Ephialtes, who showed the Persian king Xerxes a road to circumvent Thermopylae in 480.

这可能是真实的，但故事看起来像形迹可疑希罗·多德的故事Ephialtes，谁表明，波斯国王薛西斯的道路绕过塞莫480。

After his defeat at Plataea in 479 BC, Xerxes, king of Persia, was retreating from Greece when his ship, overloaded with Persian warriors, was caught in a heavy storm.

波斯国王薛西斯公元前四七九年在普拉蒂亚战败之后， 从希腊撤退。 他船上所载将士本来已过多， 途中还遇上大风暴。