Xerxes, a hard, ambitious man, needed no urging.

薛西斯是一个冷酷无情的有统治欲的人，他二话没说，马上就干。

If you but lay down your arms and kneel to holy Xerxes.

只要你放下武器，向神圣的薛西斯王下跪。

They fall by the hundreds. We send the severed bodies and the fragile hearts back to Xerxes' feet.

他们成千上百的倒下。我们把残破的肢体和脆弱的心送回到薛西斯的脚下。

Xerxes plan was simple: march into Greece through the north, and outflank any Greek defenders by landing his navy behind them along the Greek coast.

薛西斯的计划很简单：从北方进军希腊，并通过在希腊海岸登陆他的海军在他们身后包抄任何希腊防御者。

Yet having learned who Mordecai's people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai's people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.

他们已将末底改的本族告诉哈曼，他以为下手害末底改一人是小事，就要灭绝亚哈随鲁王通国所有的犹大人，就是末底改的本族。