Conquerors seized them as especially precious spoils of war; tourists came to see and hear these machines the way they made pilgrimages to sacred relics.
征服者把它们当做格外珍贵的战利品；游客来参观和聆听这些机器，就像朝拜圣地一样。
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The story is,Abraham then gives a tithe, a tenth of the spoils of war to Melchizedek as an offering.
这个故事讲，亚伯拉罕交了什一税，即给了麦基洗德十分之一的战利品作为赠礼。
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His thousand disbanded, he returned to his island home on Caprera, north of Sardinia, with his spoils of war-some coffee and sugar, a bundle of stock-fish and a box of macaroni.