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You will find it difficult to believe what happened next．
你将觉得接下来发生的事很难置信。
Sir，I said，Id like to give you something to thank you for your kindness to me since I arrived at the palace．
先生，我说，我想送给你一样东西以表示感谢自我从来到宫里后你对我的厚爱。
Three or four hundred years ago，we Europeans discovered how to make a special powder．When you set fire to it，it burns and ex-plodes immediately，with a noise louder than thunder．
三四百年前，我们欧洲人发明了怎样制造一种特别的粉末。当你点燃它时，它立即燃烧爆炸，声音比打雷还响，
You can use it to shoot heavy balls of metal from large guns．It can destroy the largest ships，it can kill a whole army，it can cut men's bodies in half，it can destroy the strongest walls．
你可以用它来把很沉的金属弹丸从很大的枪中射出，它可以摧毁最大的轮船，消灭整个军队，把人的身躯切成两半，摧毁最坚固的墙壁。
It's called gunpowder，and it's easy and cheap to make．To show you how grateful I am to you，I'm offering to explain how to make it-then you will be able to destroy all your enemies！
它叫火药，制作起来简单廉价。为了表达我是多么的感激你，我自愿给你解释怎么制造它—然后你就有能力消灭你的所有敌人！
I was very surprised by the King's reply．
我对国王的回答感到非常吃惊。
No！he cried in horror．Don't tell me！I don't want to know how to murder people like that．
不！他惊恐地叫道，不要告诉我！我不想知道怎样去谋杀人。
I would rather give half my country away than know the secret of this powder．How can a tiny creature like you have such inhuman，cruel ideas？Never speak to me of this again！
我宁愿割出一半国土也不想知道这种粉末的秘密。你们这样渺小的生物怎么可以有如此不人道、残酷的想法？决不要再跟我提这事！
How strange that such an excellent king should not take the chance I was offering him！No European king would hesitate for a moment But he had other strange ideas．
多么奇怪！如此优秀的国王，竟然不抓住我提供给他的机会！任何一个欧洲国王绝不会有一丝犹豫。可是他还有其他怪念头。
He believed，very simply，that every problem can be solved by honest，sen-sible people，and that the political life of a country must have no secrets and must be open for all to see and understand．
他相信，每个问题都可以被诚实、通情理的人解决，一个国家的政治生活必须没有秘密，必须公开给世人看和理解。
Of course，we know that this is impossible，so perhaps his opinion of us is not worth considering．
当然，我们知道这是不可能的，所以他的看法也许对我们来说不值得考虑。
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