1.The Hungry Steppe: that's what the Russians used to call the area beside the road from Samarkand to Tashkent.
从撒马尔罕到塔什干一路上的地区，曾被俄国人称为不毛之地。
2.Viewed thus, as through the wrong end of a telescope, it looked disconcertingly small and distant; but then from Samarkand it would.
这样就像从望远镜的反端观察，纽约显得异常渺小与遥远；不过，站到萨马尔罕那边看，情况就是如此。
3.The next day was spent looking around Samarkand.
次日我在撒马尔罕观光。
4.The lover got the girl, but Babur did not get Samarkand.
这个痴情人如愿得到了女孩，但是巴布尔没有得到撒马尔罕。
5.Personally speaking, after three sweaty days in the same clothes, I was taking the road to Samarkand for lust of a warm shower.
就我而言，在三天大汗淋漓却又换不了衣服之后，我在前往撒马尔罕的路上，所有的欲望只是洗个热水澡。
6."For lust of what should not be known we take the Golden Road to Samarkand. "
“我们为了不应当知晓的贪欲，沿着金色的道路来到了撒马尔罕。”
7.He tried again to take Samarkand, and was again beaten back.
他再次试图攻占撒马尔罕，又再次被击退。
8.They captured and looted many famous cities, including Samarkand, tashkent, Bokhara and Herat.
他们占领并抢劫许多著名的城市，包括撒马尔罕、塔什干、布哈拉、赫拉特等。
9.Though Guyuk was preparing for war with Batu when he died at Samarkand in 1248, the empire turned east.
虽然贵由等1248年拔都死后，向他的部队开展，不过帝国转向东方。
10.A boy sits in the court of Tillia-Kari mosque in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, ca. 1910.
一个男孩坐在位于撒马尔罕（现属乌兹别克斯坦）的Tillia-Kari清真寺的院子里（1910）。