You know, There is no royal road to learning.

你知道，“学海无涯苦作舟。”

There is no royal road to learning.

学无坦途。

The royal road to influence is to put the focus on others.

影响别人的捷径就是把重点放在别人身上。

Once the Assyrians conquered an area, they built cities connected by well-maintained royal roads.

一旦亚述人征服了一个地区，他们就会建造由维护良好的皇家道路连接起来的城市。

Even so, there was no royal road in business, and he went on.

即使商业上并无坦途，他毅然前往。

To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

不需相识就结下交往之情，不需交往之情便可产生婚姻，跳过这些阶段，只有走跳舞这条捷径的人能做到。

For Roosevelt knew, as all leaders know, that the royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.

正如所有领导人那样，罗斯福明白，打开一个人心扉的真诚之道，就是谈论该人最为珍爱之事。

And this, really, is the idea that -- In consciousness science, we tended to think things like vision -- Vision as being the royal road to understanding consciousness.

这，真的，就是这样的想法——在意识科学中，我们倾向于认为像视觉这样的东西——视觉是理解意识的捷径。

So far this week the objects in this world history have taken me along the royal roads of the Persian Empire, into mythical battles in Athens and to some heavy drinking in northern Europe.

之前的几件物品让我们沿着波斯帝国的大道奔驰，走进了雅典的神话战役，也看过了北欧人的狂饮。