因而韶关成为中国北方及长江中下游地区与华南沿海之间最重要的陆路通道之地。
There was abundant cause, though, for Hannibal, a Carthaginian general, to take the land route across the Pyrenees and Alps to Rome in the winter of 218BC.公元前218年冬天,对迦太基将军汉尼拔而言,有充足的翻越比利牛斯山脉和阿尔卑斯山脉,打通到罗马的陆路。
The land route started from Chang 'an, going west across deserts and over mountains through certain central and western Asian countries and finally reaching Europe.陆路从长安开始,向西穿过沙漠,翻越大山,经过中亚和西亚的一些国家,最后到达欧洲。