1·I designed, after my first voyage, to spend the rest of my days at Bagdad, but it was not long ere I grew weary of an indolent life, and I put to sea a second time, with merchants of known probity.
我计划，在我第一次历险之后，剩下的时间都呆在巴格达，但是没过多久我就对散漫的人生感到厌烦，我第二次出海了，和正直的商人一起。
2·Im an army intelligence analyst, deployed to eastern Bagdad... if you had unprecedented access to classified networks, 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for 8 + months, what would you do?
我是一名军事情报分析师，在巴格达东部服役…要是你8个多月里，每周7天，一天14个小时可以不受限制访问机密网络，那你会怎么做？
3·At first the merchants of Bagdad and Damascus laughed.
一开始巴格达和大马士革的商人们都笑了。
4·I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
在巴格达看到他我感到十分意外，因为今天晚上我要在萨迈拉同他约会。
5·Now I can promise you, that a Frenchman might show himself in public, either in Tunis, Constantinople, Bagdad, or Cairo, without being treated in that way.
我向您保证，一个法国人不论到突尼西亚君士坦丁堡巴格达或开罗去，他尽可以在公众场所露面，而他的周围决不会有人围观的。