As long ago as 500 A.D., Persians used windmills for grinding grain and pumping water.

早公元500年，波斯人就利用风车来研磨谷物以及抽水。

The word " caravanserai" is a combination of the Persian words " karvan" , which means a group of travellers or a caravan, and " saray" , a palace or enclosed building.

Caravanserais一词是波斯语karvan和seray的结合体，karvan的意思是一群旅行者或一支商队，seray的意思是宫殿或封闭式建筑。

And I'm not Persian, by the way.

顺便说一句，我不是波斯人。

A desk, Persian rug, books of " artistic nudes" .

一张桌子 波斯地毯 裸体艺术的书。

He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy in the Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.

他波斯患过，马来亚群岛患过坏血，亚历山大患过麻疯，日本患过脚气，马达加斯加患过淋巴腺鼠疫，西西里碰到过地震，麦哲伦海峡遇到过牺牲惨重的轮船失事。

Last Wednesday it was taking off from an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf when it suddenly lost power. It didn't crash into the water.

上周三他的飞机从位于波斯湾的母起飞时突然失去动力。所幸的是没有掉入水里。

They build their reputations tilling some minuscule academic field, and then pontificate on Charlie Rose about everything under the sun.

这仅是几位害群之马而已吗？联邦法官理查德波斯纳其《公共知识分子》（哈弗出版社）中认为，这是整个术的风气的败坏，审视各类者教授（不但是无良者），波纳斯表权威的影响力源于对公众的蒙蔽，他们某狭隘的专业专业领域里打拼，一旦功成名就，便 “ 查利罗斯访谈秀 ” 等节目上煮酒论英雄。

According to Emily Post, either way is fine.

艾米丽·波斯特表两种方式都可以。

He'd run about 26 miles to tell his fellow Greeks that the Athenian army had defeated the Persians and of course a marathon today commemorates the 26 plus miles the messenger ran.

他跑了大约26英里，告诉他的希腊同胞雅典军队打败了波斯人，当然今天的马拉松是为了纪念信使跑了超过26英里。

The U.S. says it urgently deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln to the Persian Gulf and sent both B-52 bombers and additional patriot anti- craft batteries to the Middle East.

美国表，它紧急向波斯湾部署了 USS Abraham Lincoln t（美国亚伯拉罕·林肯号空母舰），并向中东地区派遣了B-52轰炸机和额外的爱国者反舰炮兵连。

He was doing research there at the time and studying the Farsi language, but Iran sentenced him to 10 years in prison saying his school, Princeton University, had sent Wang to Iran to get secret information about the country.

当时他正伊朗做研究，习波斯语，但伊朗判处他10年监禁，称其所校普林斯顿大派他去伊朗获取机密情报。

And when you reached a similar conclusion about such crimes in Rwanda and Bosnia, you established tribunals to put the perpetrators on trial.

当安理会对于卢旺达和波斯尼亚上演的类似罪行得出一致结论后，便设立法庭，以便对肇事者进行审判。

It used to be a monarchy governed by a Shah, a Persian king but 40 years ago that Shah was overthrown and forced into exile.

过去是一个君主政体，由波斯国王沙阿统治，但40年前沙阿被推翻并被迫流亡。

Nibs is very brave. He goes out, hides behind a tree and looks around him.

尼波斯非常勇敢，他出去藏一颗大树后面盯梢。

In 1995, Clinton used the limited strike option, in the hopes that airstrikes in Bosnia would compel the Serbians to negotiate the end of the war.

1995，克林顿选择使用精确打击，希望波斯尼亚的空袭能够迫使塞尔维亚人谈判结束战争。

But with its spread to Sassanid Persia, it acquired its current name and terminology– " chess, " derived from " shah, " meaning king, and " checkmate" from " shah mat, " or " the king is helpless" .

但它传播到萨珊王朝的波斯后，就获得了现的名称和术语——" 国际象棋" 源自" shah" ，意思是国王，而" 将军" 来自" shah mat" ， 意思是" 国王孤立无援" 。

It's cloudy. How's the weather in Boston?

多云。波斯顿的天气怎样呢？

A man in the European country of Bosnia Herzegovina built this for his wife because she kept changing her mind on the view she wanted from their old house.

欧洲国家波斯尼亚·黑塞哥维那（波黑）的一名男子为他的妻子建造了这座房子，因为妻子不断改变主意，想从他们的老房子里看到她想要的风景。

" Come in, " the Persian said quietly.

“进来。” 波斯人轻声说。

From the BBC Persian Service, here is Majid Afshar.

以下是BBC波斯语频道的马吉德·阿夫沙尔带来的报道。