古德明英语军事小故事：马 死 留 名 (中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。马 死 留 名
alexander the great was extremely fond of his warhorse bucephalus. the horse is said to have allowed no other man to mount him when he wore the royal trappings, and apart from alexander only his groom when unsaddled. once, when wounded in battle, he refused to let alexander change to another mount.
during alexander's campaign in hyrcania, bucephalus was stolen by the mardians. alexander was furious, and declared that if the horse were not returned, he would kill every single mardian, irrespective of age and sex. the mardians responded quickly, and sued for peace.
bucephalus was killed in battle in 326 bc at the great age of 30. such was alexander's grief that he had a city founded around bucephalus' tomb, which was called alexandria bucephala.
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