" There has been a lot of destruction in recent years, " said Ismail Miftah, a farmer living next to Cyrene.

住在昔兰尼附近的农民伊斯梅尔·米夫塔说，" 近年来，这里遭到了很多破坏。"

It started in Cyrene, the capital of  Cyrenaica.

它始于昔兰尼，昔兰尼加的首都。

32 As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.

32 他们出来的时候、遇见一个古利奈人、名叫西门、就勉强他同去、好背着耶稣的十字架。

As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.

他们出来的时候，遇见一个古利奈人，名叫西门，就勉强他同去，好背着耶稣的十字架。

Coins from Cyrene, in what is now Libya, carry the familiar emblem, representing silphium, a now-extinct plant used as a cooking spice, perfume, aphrodisiac, and… contraceptive.

赛勒内（今利比亚境内 ）的硬币上印有人们熟悉的标志，象征着水飞蓟，一种现已灭绝的植物，用作烹饪香料、香水、春药和… … 避孕药。

Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a 3rd century BCE mathematician from ancient Greece interested in prime numbers, that is numbers only divisible by 1 and themselves.

Cyrene 的埃拉托色尼 (Eratosthenes of Cyrene) 是公元前 3 世纪来自古希腊的数学家，他对素数很感兴趣，素数只能被 1 和它们本身整除。

From Cyrene, the revolt spread to Alexandria in Egypt, possibly as both Greeks fled to warn the  city and the Jewish people went on the attack.

叛乱从昔兰尼蔓延到埃及的亚历山大，可能是因为希腊人逃亡警告这座城市，而犹太人则继续进攻。

Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

但内中有塞浦路斯和古利奈人，他们到了安提阿，也向希腊人传讲主耶稣（有古卷作" 也向说希腊话的犹太人传讲主耶稣" ）。

21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.

21 有一个古利奈人西门、就是亚力山大和鲁孚的父亲、从乡下来、经过那地方、他们就勉强他同去、好背着耶稣的十字架。

A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.

有一个古利奈人西门，就是亚历山大和鲁孚的父亲，从乡下来，经过那地方，他们就勉强他同去，好背着耶稣的十字架。

The ancient city of Cyrene in present-day Libya became so rich from farming silphium that it used the plant's shape on its currency, which bore a striking resemblance to our modern-day heart symbol.

现在的利比亚的古城塞伦尼亚变得非常富有，因为他们种植了silphium这种植物，其形状与我们现代的心形符号非常相似，被印在他们的货币上。

Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia—who began to argue with Stephen.

当时有称利百地拿会堂的几个人，并有古利奈、亚历山大、基利家、亚细亚各处会堂的几个人，都起来和司提反辩论。

Historians believe that  large numbers of Jewish people were either killed or displaced in Cyrene and Alexandria – the  lost lives were so numerous that the Romans had to focus on repopulating these areas.

历史学家认为，在昔兰尼和亚历山大，大量犹太人要么被杀，要么流离失所——失去的生命如此之多，罗马人不得不集中精力在这些地区重新定居。

Both Cyprus  and Mesopotamia descended into revolt; although they may have been related to the uprisings in  Cyrene and Alexandria, it is also possible that the Jewish people there simply took inspiration  from these other cities.

塞浦路斯和美索不达米亚都陷入叛乱。尽管它们可能与昔兰尼和亚历山大的起义有关，但那里的犹太人也有可能只是从这些其他城市获得了灵感。