Kublai Khan would even go to war with his own brother, Ariq Boke.

忽必烈甚至和他自己的兄弟阿里不哥开战。

Kublai Khan welcomed Marco and his father.

元世祖欢迎马可·波罗和他父亲来中国。

So the Mongols, Kublai Khan, in the mid 1200s, reigned over the largest empire in history up to that point, and he had a problem.

蒙古人忽必烈 1200 年代中期统治当时最的帝国，而他遇到了一个问题。

Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, conquered the rest of China in 1275 and caused the collapse of the Chinese Song Dynasty.

忽必烈，成吉思汗的孙子，于 1275 年征服了中国其他地区，导致了中国宋朝的崩溃。

Kublai Khan finally died on February 18, 1294. His body was buried in a secret place somewhere in Mongolia.

忽必烈最后死于1294年2月18日。他的尸体被埋蒙古的某个秘密的地方。

At that time, China was ruled by the Yuan Dynasty Emperor, Kublai Khan.

那时，统治中国的是元朝的元世祖忽必烈。

An Italian explorer named Marco Polo wrote down the history of the Mongolian Empire while living amongst Kublai Khan's royal court.

一位名叫马可波罗的利探险家忽必烈的皇家宫廷中写下了蒙古帝国的历史。

When it was finally over, there was no-one left to oppose Kublai Khan.

当战争最后结束时，已经没有人可以反对忽必烈了。

This means that he would have had to have had hundreds of children, and we know that his son Jochi had 40 sons and his grandson Kublai Khan had 22 legitimate sons.

这他必须有数百个孩子，我们知道他的儿子术赤有 40 个儿子，他的孙子忽必烈有 22 个合法的儿子。

Unfortunately for Kublai Khan, he was not as feared as his great-grandfather had once been, and Mongolia would eventually begin to break off into civil wars.

不幸的是，忽必烈不像他的祖父那样令人恐惧，蒙古最终开始爆发内战。

In the aftermath, the Mongols retreated back to the steppe, never again playing an important part in history. But the same can't be said of Kublai Khan.

之后蒙古人撤退到草原，再也没有历史上扮演过重要角色，这么说不包括忽必烈。

Kublai Khan also expanded the empire in the west into Europe, up to the Danube River in modern-day Bulgaria.

忽必烈还将帝国从西部扩展到欧洲，一直延伸到多瑙河，也就是今天的保加利亚。

His grandson Kublai Khan became the ruler of Mongolia in the year 1260, and his brothers and cousins held positions of power all over the empire.

他的孙子忽必烈 1260 年成为蒙古的统治者，他的兄弟和堂兄弟整个帝国都拥有权力。

In 1275, three bedraggled men arrived at Kublai's Khan's vast marble palace.

1275年，三个衣衫褴褛的人来到忽必烈宏伟的理石宫殿。

And another of Genghis’ grandsons, Kublai Khan, conquered the Song Dynasty in China in 1279.

成吉思汗的另一个孙子忽必烈于 1279 年征服了中国的宋朝。

So we don't know exactly where Marco and the Polos would have first encountered Kublai Khan, but one of the capitals is in Chinese called Shangdu, and this will give us Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Xanadu, several centuries later.

所以我们不知道马可和波罗家族最初是哪里遇到忽必烈汗的，但其中一个首都中国被称为上都，几个世纪后这将给萨缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治带来香格里拉的灵感。

In the late 1250s, Kublai Khan took the throne and chose the region around the town of Dardu near the Yellow River to build the new capital of Khanbaliq, now known as Beijing.

13世纪50年代末， 忽必烈汗登上皇位， 并选定黄河附近达鲁镇周边地区， 建造新都城汗八里，即现今的北京。

In three battles, in 1257, 1284, and 1285,   Kublai Khan's forces attempted to seize Vietnam, but in all three battles, the  great Mongols were defeated.

1257 年、1284 年和 1285 年的三场战役中， 忽必烈的军队试图夺取越南，但这三场战役中， 伟的蒙古人都被击败。

He has survived 24 years in the court of the terrifyingly, famously fearsome Kublai Khan.

他令人闻风丧胆的著名暴君忽必烈汗的宫廷中生存了24年。

By the time the Mongol leader Kublai Khan conquered most of China in 1276, a variant of the original calendar, the Daming calendar, was in use, but was centuries old and in need of correction.

当蒙古领袖忽必烈汗于1276年征服中国部分地区时，原有的历法——明历的一个变种仍使用， 但它已沿用数百年， 亟需修正。