did zhizhi copy this?

郅支单于就是从这里学的吗？

mr harris's efforts drew attention from the media, as well as from the authorities. even the communist party's main mouthpiece, the people's daily, carried an approving article. but there were sceptics aplenty. liu guanghua, a retired professor at lanzhou university, says the name liqian derives from the second and third syllables of the word for alexandria, the egyptian city sometimes used by the chinese as a term for the roman empire in general. yet alexandria was not conquered by the romans until 30bc, and it was only after this date that the chinese began to use the name in this way. some scholars also think liqian was founded well before the romans were supposed to have settled there.

哈里斯的努力受到媒体与当局关注。甚至中共的主要喉舌《人民日报》也刊登了一篇持肯定意见的文章。但对此持怀疑态度的人还是很多。兰州大学的一位退休教授刘光华认为，骊靬这个名字来自亚历山大（alexandria）这个词的第二与第三个音节，有时中国人用这座埃及城市通称罗马帝国。但问题是，罗马人公元前30年才攻占亚历山大，而只在此之后中国人才开始以这种方式使用这个名字。也有些学者认为，骊靬的建立远在假定罗马人在此定居的日子之前。

as for the somewhat foreign-looking faces of a few yongchang residents, it would hardly be surprising to find some mixed racial features in the county, given that it straddles what was once a major trading route and borders on central asia, whose peoples look quite different from the han chinese. for a few among the people of one of china's poorest provinces, there is perhaps romantic consolation in the thought that they share their blood with caesar. but the abandoned shell of a new luxury hotel and the dark empty corridors of the main guest-house in yongchang suggest the romance is proving slow to take hold more widely.

至于说到一些永昌居民与外国人类似的相貌，有些人认为不足为奇。他们觉得原因是当年的主要通商大道丝绸之路穿越永昌，该县又与中亚国家交界，而这些国家的人看上去与中国汉人相差甚远，因此会在永昌看到一些混血面孔。甘肃省是中国最贫穷的省份之一，其中的一些人或许会把与凯撒大帝有同样血缘当作一种浪漫的安慰。但永昌县城里一座豪华新旅馆刚盖起外壳就成了烂尾楼，主要宾馆的走廊里一片漆黑、空旷无人——由此看来，让更多的人接受这一浪漫想法的过程进展缓慢。